Random House Academic First-Year and Common Reading 2015

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Dear Common Reading Director:

Within these pages, you will find a broad selection of engaging fiction and nonfiction to initiate
reflection and discussion among your students, helping them form their own opinions, explore social
issues, and develop into better citizens of the world. As your students prepare to discuss the stories of
others, they will ultimately become more comfortable with sharing their own.
Whatever your needs and interests, we are confident that you will be able to find the ideal book for
your program. If you are a professor or a member of a common reading program, you may order
examination copies of any of these titles. Simply follow the instructions on our examination copy page:
www.randomhouse.com/acmart/requests.
Many of our authors are also available to visit college campuses as part of a first-year program.
Please email me at mgentile@penguinrandomhouse.com for more information.
Sincerely,
Michael D. Gentile
Director, Academic Marketing
Penguin Random House
Tel. (212) 782-8387
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P.S.: We invite you to stay connected with us by

linking to any one of our social media channels or
downloading our app (see bottom of facing page).
We often give away free books through these
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check in often.
Photos from the 2014 First-Year Experience Random House Author Event
The Penguin Random House Common Reading
Advisory Board was launched in 2010. Comprised
of your colleagues from across the country, the Board
has been instrumental in guiding our outreach to
you, the common reading program director. In fact,
the catalog you now hold in your hands is a result of
their efforts. Please visit tinyurl.com/l3o9zde to read
more about the board.
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Contents
Life StoriesMemoir, Biography & Autobiography.....................................................................................10
Fiction to Talk About........................................................................................................................................32
Inspiration & Guidance ....................................................................................................................................52
History & Society ..............................................................................................................................................56
Life & College Guides .......................................................................................................................................86
Environmental Studies & Health Sciences.....................................................................................................98
Social Action ....................................................................................................................................................102
Index .................................................................................................................................................................108
Order Form ......................................................................................................................................................111
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Meet Our Authors

Cocktails & Conversation
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Photo: Peter Ash Lee
DAMIEN ECHOLS
Photo: Nina Subin
BRYAN STEVENSON
Sunday, February 8, 2015
6:007:00PM
Omni Dallas Hotel, Dallas, Texas (Trinity Ballroom Salon 8)
Photo: Nina Subin
Photo: Heather Weston
The 11th Annual Random House Authors Luncheon
Okey Ndibe
Bryan Stevenson
Max Brooks
Anthony Marra
E. Lockhart
Monday, February 9, 2015
11:301:15PM
Omni Dallas Hotel, Dallas, Texas (Dallas Ballroom Salon G)
Please RSVP at www.randomhouse.com/acmart/invite

or visit Random House Booths #59/60
If reserving for others please include their full name and school affiliation.
Speakers to get your students talking

Hosting an author on campus gives students a chance to meet some of the most brilliant minds
who are shaping the national conversation. No matter the format, author visits ignite conversations,
ideas, and debates beyond the lecture halland the Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau is
here to help you make it happen. We represent bestselling authors, award-winning journalists,
international business leaders, science and innovation experts, and thought leaders from the
elds of history, medicine, and law, among many others.
What venues are saying about our speakers:
Dr. Sheri Fink
Bryan Stevenson
Dr. Finks presentation was eye-opening on the experiences

endured and the difcult choices hospital ofcials had
to make during their respective hurricanes. Dr. Fink is an
engaging and insightful presenter and her engagement
with attendees was delightful.
Bryan Stevenson was spectacularjust as we expected! He

held our audience spellboundyou could hear a pin drop
as he spoke. Hes a compelling person, thats for sure! It was
a memorable and meaningful day at the Town Hall Forum.
WESTMINSTER TOWN HALL IN MINNEAPOLIS
MARYLAND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION
Gary Shteyngart
Jenny Nordberg
Gary Shteyngart is sincere to the point of bravery when

discussing his experience of growing up a poor Russian
immigrant in America. From his own formative experiences,
to globalization, to Stalinism, and much more, Shteyngart
tackles serious issues in a movingly vulnerable voice that
had us cracking up at every turn. Living artists of this caliber are rare creatures.
COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON
Jenny Nordbergs book, The Underground Girls of Kabul,

lls the gap in what is too often an unnoticed topic, and to
have Jenny as a primary-source expert here to talk about
it was a special opportunity. Both her book and her lecture
were eloquent and researched, and her passion and investment in sharing her work with others could not be any
clearer.
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PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE
SUPPORTS YOUR PROGRAM
electing the right title is only the rst step toward making your First-Year Reading
program a success; publisher support is also essential. The Penguin Random House
Academic Marketing Department is here to ensure that your program runs smoothly
and successfully, and that your needs and requests are handled in a thorough
and efcient manner.
WE ARE PLEASED TO HELP YOU WITH THE FOLLOWING:
AUTHOR APPEARANCES
Well promptly channel your
author requests to the
appropriate speakers bureau
or lecture agency to ensure
they are attended to quickly.
ANCILLARY MATERIALS
Should you need author
photos or additional content
and materials, we will research
the available options and assist
you as best as we can.
DISCUSSION GUIDES
We continue to develop and
make available discussion guides, which
may be used as tools by your discussion
leaders. Many of these free guides are
available in print, and all may be easily
downloaded from our website.
DESK COPIES
Depending upon the method
of your order, you are entitled to one
complimentary copy of a book per
twenty student copies ordered. These
complimentary copies are often
allocated to group discussion leaders.
CUSTOMIZED COPIES
Want to include a letter from
your dean or college president?
Imprint the cover with a specialized
seal? Or modify the book in some
other way? We will connect you to our
Premium Sales Department to process
your request. (Please note these orders
are not for resale.)
ORDERING
Although Penguin Random House
does not sell directly to schools or
libraries, we will assist you in placing
your order, whether through your
bookstore, a local wholesaler, or our
in-house Premium Sales Department.
QUESTIONS?
MICHAEL D. GENTILE
Director, Academic Marketing
Penguin Random House, 1745 Broadway

New York, NY 10019 Tel. (212) 782-8387
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PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE COMMON READING
Book Post-Adoption
TIMELINE
This timeline provides a helpful

outline of the steps that compose a
successful common reading program
BOOK IS SELECTED
BOOK PURCHASE
Students will purchase

their own copy of book
How do students
obtain the book?
Contact your campus
bookstore/distributor
to order directly.
What is the
estimated length
of time between
order and delivery?
Allow 34 weeks
for delivery.
PROGRAMMING
University is purchasing
books as gifts to students
(e.g., during Orientation)
Will you need a

custom version? We
can print customized
editions with your
college logo and/or
letter from your
president.
No customization
Who should the institution contact

to obtain a price quote?
Contact jlipman@penguinrandomhouse.com or
1.800.800.3246 for a price quote. Have
available the book title, ISBN, quantity,
delivery date, and ship to information.
How much time

does customization
take? Normal delivery
time for custom
editions is 68 weeks
from order to delivery.
What is the
estimated length
of time between
order and delivery?
Allow 24 weeks
for delivery of regular
editions.
Author visit?
Many of our authors
are represented by
the Penguin Random
House Speakers
Bureau. To request an
author, contact
212.572.2013 or
speakers@
penguinrandomhouse.
com. When contacting
the PRH Speakers
Bureau, please know
your available budget,
desired date of visit,
audience size and
type, program
description, and if
there will be book
signing opportunities.
Other programming
ideas (see our
Best Practices and
Programming Ideas
on pages 67)
Visit www.commonreads.com to access an online version of this timeline
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BEST PRACTICES AND

Tips from the Penguin Random House
LAUNCHING A PROGRAM
Relax, you dont need to reinvent the wheel. Take advantage of the many resources available to learn about other reading
programs. A good starting point is a monograph published by the National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience
and Students in Transition, Common Reading Programs: Going Beyond the Book. In addition, there are a number of campuses
with well-established and successful reading programs, and the professionals who run these programs are usually very happy
to share advice and tips (as well as opinions on books they have used in the past).
When starting a program, its important to include various stakeholders on campus. When it is time to select a book, you
will most likely want some type of campus selection committee. The committee should comprise members of a variety of
constituencies, including faculty, student services, and academic affairs administrators as well as students.
Think carefully about the scope, mission, learning outcomes, and assessment of your program. For example, will the
program be a first-year/new student reading program or a campus-wide (common) reading program? What will be the
purpose of the program? This may influence the type of books you will be considering. How will you inform students about
the program, and when will they be expected to read the book? Again, take advantage of the numerous resources available to
help answer these questions.
SELECTING A BOOK
Think about the following questions when considering eligible books for your program:
Does the book tell a good story?
Is the book accessible? Will a variety of students at different reading levels and with different interests be able to engage with
the book? To this point, consider page count. A good rule of thumb is the 300 Rule: if possible, choose a book with 300
pages or less.
Does it feature a protagonist students can relate to? They might be the same age or be dealing with similar life situations
(change, challenge, adversity).
Does the book touch on teachable themes, such as inclusiveness/diversity, global engagement, etc.?
Do the themes of the book correspond to your universitys strategic mission? Campus engagement and resources will be
easier to secure if you make this relationship clear.
If having the books author speak is part of the plan for your reading program, it is important to consider author availability
during the book selection process. Speaking fees and availability can vary considerably. You dont want to go through all the
work to select a book, only to find out that the authors speaking fee will not work for your budget, or s/he is not available to
speak on the dates you need!
ENGAGING STUDENTS
Use digital and social media to your advantage. Use your universitys existing social media webpage or account (Facebook,
Twitter, etc.) or create a dedicated page for your common reading program to build a community around the book selection,
author visit, and other programming activities. Many authors, publishers, and lecture agencies have existing material that can
be posted to your community page.
Get students prepared. Consider introducing the book during the spring or summer prior to the next academic year.
For example, if first-year students receive the book during Orientation, the Orientation Leaders and various speakers can
advertise the program and build a feeling of community around the reading of the text. Also, think about having students
turn in questions for the author as part of an assignment, and have a moderator pose the questions to the author. This will
incentivize students to come up with more original questions, will save on time during the Q&A, and will avoid dreaded
dead air. Make the questions a contest, such as: Can you stump the author?
Have students create materials in advance of the authors visit. Essay collections are a great idea. You may also consider
multimedia approachessuch as blogs, videos, or a website. Students tend to share more on a personal level when they are
not in an open forum and the medium can be anonymous. Another idea is to have students autograph and annotate the
authors book. In addition to brief messages to the author, annotations can call attention to the passages of the book students
find most compelling or personally resonant. Authors appreciate different perspectives on and reactions to their work, and
they can take home the annotated book as a memento to commemorate the event!
PROGRAMMING IDEAS
Common Reading Advisory Board
Organize campus-wide discussion groups. Some campuses use faculty, some use upper-class students, and some use a
combination of faculty, staff, and students to facilitate these discussions. Again, this is a good way for the first-year student to
feel that they are a part of the university community.
Link the book to as much existing campus programming as possible. Can the Film Studies department co-sponsor a
viewing of a film related to your book? Are there plays, arts exhibits, or other speakers coming to campus that you could tie
into? Perhaps Student Activities can help as well? Reach out to faculty who teach courses relevant to your book selection,
provide them with review copies of the book, invite them to events, and ask them to embed the book in their syllabi and
courses. Your book selection committee will be a great resource in making these connections.
HOSTING AN AUTHOR
Is the author represented by an agency or speakers bureau? Most authors will have an agent, and that will be the person
to contact about speaking fees and availability. We also have an in-house speakers bureau that can help you with any of your
speaker needsthey can be reached at speakers@penguinrandomhouse.com.
Encourage as many faculty and students as possible to read the book in advance of the authors visit. In addition to having
more enthusiastic readers on campus to help you spread the good word about the book and your program, folks who have
already read the book will have more interesting questions for the author, making for a more intelligent and productive
discussion.
Assign a faculty member or administrator to host the author. While one of the benefits of an author visit is for students to
engage with the author, it is important to have a faculty member or administrator act as the dedicated host, someone who has
the authority to assertively manage appearancesto turn down requests or move an author to the next location, for example.
Sharing is caring! Encourage university departments and divisions to coordinate in advance. Perhaps events may be
co-sponsored so the author isnt pulled in too many directions, and departments can share space, time, money, and other
resources.
Consider having one large campus talk that is required of all students. This makes the best use of both your programming
time and the authors time on campus. Many authors say that different departments and disciplines actually tend to have
questions that are more similar in nature than they are different. Even if that is not the case, a diversity of questions is a good
thing; it offers a richer conversation when different interests come together, and students learn more.
Mix up the formats of events. The most successful visits offer the author and participants a variety of events to keep
things fresh and engaging. Have the author speak at a podium for one event, do an on-stage sit-down Q&A at another, and
participate in a group interview with faculty at a third.
When hosting an author Q&A, its important to appoint a moderator to move the discussion along. The moderator can
address basic factual questions upfront, to allow for a more in-depth exchange during the Q&A. The moderator can also be
the person who introduces the author.
Following a large campus-wide talk, arrange for smaller, more intimate discussions with faculty and students, in which the
author and participants can delve more deeply into topics mentioned in the campus-wide talk. All participants should have
attended the larger campus talk so that they come to the breakout sessions with at least a basic knowledge of the book.
Give authors a break (or two)! In order to provide your participants with the best experience possible, foster an
environment that makes the author comfortable, and one that allows them to put their best foot forward. Schedule breaks in
between sessions and offer some meals off. Arrange to have snacks, water, coffee, and meals available as appropriate. If the
author is the key attraction at a meal, make sure he or she has ample time to eat.
Dont take it personally. When negotiating your authors visit to campus, there may be many requirements on the part of
the agency for travel, lodging, and down time. These are based on the agencys standard contractual obligations designed
to cover a wide variety of celebrities, athletes, and other speakers. However, most agencies and authors understand that
you have state and university policies that may constrain what you can offer, and will work with you to meet your needs.
Schedule ample time for planning and negotiation. You should also verify with the authors agent whether events or speaking
engagements may be videotaped or recorded. They often have provisions for what is allowable.
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Audiobooks
For many years, educational leaders have been making the link between listening to
audiobooks and developing enhanced literacy skills such as uency, comprehension, and
increased vocabulary. Astute educators and librarians have been integrating audiobooks into
their lesson plans to help engage non-readers, level the playing eld for English language
learners, and slow down those voracious readers who dont read carefully enough for
thorough comprehension.
With the growth and development of the common reading experience, professors and
administrators now have the opportunity to increase participation by adding the audiobook
option to their programming, both to better engage non-readers or to simply enhance the
reading experience.
Audiobook Stats
According to the Audio Publishers Associations annual sales & consumer surveys:
H Audiobook listeners are more voracious readers of print books than non-listeners.
H Use is primarily in the car, but listeners are increasingly using audiobooks during
exercise, cooking, gardening, and at work.
H Digital downloads now account for 60% of sales through retail channels.
H The younger generation of listeners has a strong preference for downloads.
H The unabridged format continues to dominate with 90% of audios sold.
Why Audiobooks?
H 30% of people are auditory learnersprocessing information best through listening.
H 85% of what we learn, we learn by listening . . . For students, listening is THE
dominant learning medium, fundamental to grasping all other language arts:
reading, writing, and speaking.
H Audiobooks promote a sense of intimacy and human connectionwe listened to
stories long before we read them. Audiobooks reinforce good storytelling, an
important tradition in human history.
Consider the power of the spoken word to energize
Making the link between listening and the

First-Year/Common Reading Experience
Twenty-rst
century students have
H Movies are adaptations of the text; audiobooks are

word-for-word oral versions of the text.
H The accessibility of audiobooks makes them a great
choice for international students and non-readers, who
want to join the discussion, but face some challenges.
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Bring Audiobooks into Your Evaluation Process:

Examination copies are available (in most cases) on
CD, and always as digital downloads. Please contact
commonreads@penguinrandomhouse.com with
your request.
Site Licenses Are Available:
Audiobook les can be delivered to students via a download
link on a schools website or intranet. Contact Maren
McCamley at mmccamley@penguinrandomhouse.com
for more information.
are comfortable and

attracted to devices in
their learning space.
Audiobooks are a
satisfying combination
Share an Audiobook Clip:

Clips are available for ALL of our titles at randomhouseaudio.
com. From the website, you can download the clips as mp3
les, as well as embed or share them. For example, you can
include clips in your newsletters, post them on your website,
and insert them into presentations. Contact cherman@
penguinrandomhouse.com for special clip requests.
of an old-fashioned
tradition and todays
technology.
Jon Scieszka, author,

www.guyslisten.com
In the ever-changing technological landscape,

the art of listening is an essential component
in developing literate, critical thinkers.
the learning climate at your college or university.

Find this symbol
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LIFE STORIESMEMOIR, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
I Know Why the

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ent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient

grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother,
Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local
powhitetrash. At eight years old and back at her mothers side in St.
Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her ageand has to live
with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya
learns about love for herself and the kindness of others, her own strong
spirit, and the ideas of great authors (I met and fell in love with
William Shakespeare) that will allow her to be free instead of
imprisoned.
Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a modern
American classic that will touch hearts and change minds for as long as
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and The Heart of a Woman, she wrote numerous volumes of poetry, among
them Phenomenal Woman, And Still I Rise, On the Pulse of Morning, and Mother. Maya Angelou died in 2014.
A NOTE TO EDUCATORS
Im sure many of you can remember the first time you read Maya
Angelous I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Perhaps it was assigned to you
in class, recommended to you for summer reading, or maybe you simply
chose to read it on your own. Whatever your path, I have no doubt that this
powerful memoir stayed with you long after you finished reading, much as it
has with me.
Reading the trials and triumphs of an unforgettable heroinea young
black girl in the South who suffered unspeakable violence at an early age
was an extraordinarily profound literary experience for me. Angelou shone
a light on the hardships of the rural South with vivid prose that captured the
very dust of the landscape and the deepest despair of residents victimized
by Jim Crow-era oppression. And yet, against this backdrop, she explored
the depth of family strength and wisdomthe very essence of her own
perseverance and transcendencethrough the words of her grandmother
(Momma), her brother (Bailey), and her mother (Lady)all larger than life
figures whose characters impressed not only the young Maya, but so many of
us reading their words on the page.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a groundbreaking testimony to the
resilience of the human spirit. And with its exploration of the power of each
individuals voice, its celebration of our collective strength, and its dynamic
portrayal of an extraordinary womans life, Caged Bird is as relevant to
todays students as ever.
As Random House celebrates and reflects on the beautiful life of our
literary icon and dear friend, Maya Angelou, we feel our most meaningful
tribute will be to introduce new generations to her workmost especially
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. We are inviting you, the educators, to join
us in this initiative.
While a light has gone out at Random House, Dr. Angelou was truly an
inspiration to all. We are proud and honored to have known her and to be
part of the devoted team that publishes her work. And while we will deeply
miss her soothing voice and magnanimous spirit, we are confident her work,
her wisdom, and her legacy will continue to live on.
Thank you for partnering with us to further that phenomenal legacy.
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Public Enemy
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Underground, when he becomes the GOPs flaunted domestic
terrorist, a public enemy.
Labeled a domestic terrorist by the McCain campaign in 2008 and
used by the radical right in an attempt to castigate Obama for pallin
around with terrorists, Bill Ayers is in fact a dedicated teacher, father,
and social justice advocate with a sharp memory and even sharper wit.
Public Enemy tells his story from the moment he and his wife,
Bernardine Dohrn, emerged from years on the run and rebuilt their
lives as public figures, often celebrated for their community work and
much hated by the radical right.
In the face of defamation by conservative media, including a
multimillion-dollar campaign aimed solely at demonizing Ayers, and in
spite of frequent death threats, Bill and Bernardine stay true to their
core beliefs in the power of protest, demonstration, and deep
commitment. Ayers reveals how he has navigated the challenges and
triumphs of this public life with steadfastness and a dash of good
humorfrom the red carpet at the Oscars, to prison vigils and airports
(where he is often detained and where he finally confesses that he did
write Dreams from My Father), and ultimately on the ground at Grant
Park in 2008 and again in 2012.
A MESSAGE FROM THE AUTHOR
Public Enemy is a memoir, neither a manifesto nor a history. As in any

worthwhile memoir, this is the story of a character that wakes up in a time and
circumstance not of his choosing, but must nonetheless make his wobbly way
through the landscape of his life without the benefit of hindsight. He is fated, but
he is also free.
He opens his eyes; he is astonished at both the beauty and the ecstasy in every
direction, but also at the unnecessary pain and suffering all around; he decides to
try to live a life that wont make a mockery of his values, and so he speaks out and
acts up. He must in time learn the practice of questioning his own orthodoxythe
power of doubt. My memoir tries to capture those moments for readers, especially
for youth.
Your students have finally sailed off from the safe haven of their childhood
homes; theyre in your care in college now, grown up (more or less), and floating
more-or-less happily toward a distant and hazily imagined shore. Theres some
anxiety to be sure, but mostly eager anticipation. The wide, wide world beckons,
and conditions are mostly favorable with the wind strong at their backs. They need
guidance, of course, but they also need the strongest encouragement to think and
act independently.
They may study the rebels of the pastJane Addams and W.E.B. DuBois, John
Brown and Harriet Tubman, Ella Baker and Martin Luther King, Jr.but have we
suggested to these newly formed citizens of ours that dissent, rebellion, and fiercely
independent thought are essential parts of their education and of their future in
society?
Upheaval. Argument. Disagreement and debate. Important elements (though by
no means the only ones) of a strong education.
Public Enemy affords the faculty and the administration an opportunity to
engage students in serious discussion about the role of a free university in a free
society, and to model what it means to be fearless in the pursuit of understanding.
I hope you will consider the memoir. Id be pleased to speak with your students
about it.
Bill Ayers
Unbroken
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teenager, he channeled his defiance into running, discovering a
prodigious talent that carried him to the Berlin Olympics. But when
World War II began, the athlete became an airman, embarking on a
journey that led to a doomed flight on a May afternoon in 1943. When
his Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean, against all
odds, Zamperini survived, adrift on a foundering life raft. Ahead of
Zamperini lay thousands of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, thirst
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to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with
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Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, and Seabiscuit: An American Legend, which was a finalist for the National
Book Critics Circle Award, won the Book Sense Book of the Year Award and the William Hill Sports Book of
the Year Award, landed on more than 15 best-of-the-year lists, and inspired the film Seabiscuit, which was
nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. She is serving as a consultant on the Universal
Pictures feature film based on Unbroken. Hillenbrands New Yorker article, A Sudden Illness, won the National
Magazine Award. Her work has also appeared in such publications as the New York Times, Vanity Fair, the Washington Post
and the Los Angeles Times. She and actor Gary Sinise were the cofounders of Operation International Children, a charity that
provided school supplies to children through American troops.
BOOK EXCERPT
Chapter One
THE ONE-BOY INSURGENCY
In the predawn darkness of August 26, 1929, in the back bedroom of a small house in
Torrance, California, a twelve-year-old boy sat up in bed, listening. There was a sound coming
from outside, growing ever louder. It was a huge, heavy rush, suggesting immensity, a great
parting of air. It was coming from directly above the house. The boy swung his legs off his bed,
raced down the stairs, slapped open the back door, and loped onto the grass. The yard was
otherworldly, smothered in unnatural darkness, shivering with sound. The boy stood on the
lawn beside his older brother, head thrown back, spellbound.
The sky had disappeared. An object that he could see only in silhouette, reaching across a
massive arc of space, was suspended low in the air over the house. It was longer than two and a
half football fields and as tall as a city. It was putting out the stars.
What he saw was the German dirigible Graf Zeppelin. At nearly 800 feet long and 110 feet
high, it was the largest flying machine ever crafted. More luxurious than the finest airplane,
gliding effortlessly over huge distances, built on a scale that left spectators gasping, it was, in
the summer of 29, the wonder of the world.
The airship was three days from completing a sensational feat of aeronautics, circumnavigation of the globe. The journey had begun on August 7, when the Zeppelin had slipped its
tethers in Lakehurst, New Jersey, lifted up with a long, slow sigh, and headed for Manhattan.
On Fifth Avenue that summer, demolition was soon to begin on the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel,
clearing the way for a skyscraper of unprecedented proportions, the Empire State Building. At
Yankee Stadium, in the Bronx, players were debuting numbered uniforms: Lou Gehrig wore
No. 4; Babe Ruth, about to hit his five hundredth home run, wore No. 3. On Wall Street, stock
prices were racing toward an all-time high.
After a slow glide around the Statue of Liberty, the Zeppelin banked north, then turned out
over the Atlantic. In time, land came below again: France, Switzerland, Germany. The ship
passed over Nuremberg, where fringe politician Adolf Hitler, whose Nazi Party had been
trounced in the 1928 elections, had just delivered a speech touting selective infanticide. Then it
flew east of Frankfurt, where a Jewish woman named Edith Frank was caring for her newborn,
a girl named Anne. Sailing northeast, the Zeppelin crossed over Russia. Siberian villagers, so
isolated that theyd never even seen a train, fell to their knees at the sight of it.
On August 19, as some four million Japanese waved handkerchiefs and shouted Banzai!
the Zeppelin circled Tokyo and sank onto a landing field. Four days later, as the German and
Japanese anthems played, the ship rose into the grasp of a typhoon that whisked it over the
Pacific at breathtaking speed, toward America. Passengers gazing from the windows saw only
the ships shadow, following it along the clouds like a huge shark swimming alongside. When
the clouds parted, the passengers glimpsed giant creatures, turning in the sea, that looked like
monsters.
On August 25, the Zeppelin reached San Francisco. After being cheered down the California
coast, it slid through sunset, into darkness and silence, and across midnight. As slow as the
drifting wind, it passed over Torrance, where its only audience was a scattering of drowsy
souls, among them the boy in his pajamas behind the house on Gramercy Avenue.
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barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a
suitcase of drug money ten years before. But that past has caught up
with her. Convicted and sentenced to fifteen months at the infamous
federal correctional facility in Danbury, Connecticut, the well-heeled
Smith College alumna is now inmate #11187-424one of the millions
of people who disappear down the rabbit hole of the American penal
system. From her first strip search to her final release, Kerman learns to
navigate this strange world with its strictly enforced codes of behavior
and arbitrary rules. She meets women from all walks of life, who
surprise her with small tokens of generosity, hard words of wisdom, and
simple acts of acceptance. Heartbreaking, hilarious, and at times
enraging, Kermans story offers a rare look into the lives of women in
prisonwhy it is we lock so many away and what happens to them
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foundations and nonprofits. A graduate of Smith College, she lives in Brooklyn.
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In the early 1990s, I was a graduate from an elite womens college, a little lost and very much looking
for adventure and finding it in an unlikely criminal underworld. In 2004, I was a successful professional
standing at the gates of a federal womens prison, about to start serving time for a ten-year-old drug
offense. My book, Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Womens Prison, details my plunge into the
hidden world of Americas enormous prison system, the women and men I met there, and the profound
effect that incarceration has on individuals and communities around the country. The book was adapted
into the hit Netflix original series Orange Is the New Black.
Women are the fastest-growing segment of the prison populationthe number of women
incarcerated in the U.S. has grown by 800% in recent decadesso the person wearing the emblematic
orange prison jumpsuit is more and more likely to be female. In 1980, there were approximately 500,000
people in prison in the United States; today there are 2.3 million. According to the 2008 U.S. Bureau of
Justice Statistics, there are more than 7 million people on parole, on probation, or locked up. America
represents 5% of the worlds population but incarcerates 25% of all prisoners globally. In just one
generation an enormous prison system has become entrenched and continues to grow, even as crime
rates remain at historic lows.
Intense fascination with the story of my year in prison comes from many quarters: criminal justice
and law students, those in womens and gender studies, sociologists, and of course the people who live
and work within our nations prisons and jails. While I was wearing prison khakis, I often fielded the
sly question Whats the all-American girl doing here? I found myself part of a remarkable community
of women, a handful from a middle-class background like me, the vast majority from this countrys
poorest rural and urban communities. Prison is a place with its own codes of behavior and arbitrary
hierarchies among prisoners, determined by both them and the correctional system. Its a place where
humor and resilience coexist with despair and the threat of violence, and where the uneasy relationship
between prisoner and jailer is constantly and unpredictably recalibrated.
Since the books release in the spring of 2010, Ive traveled around the country, talking with readers,
students, prisoners, probation officers, public defenders, and advocates. The book has been selected for
One Book and Community Reads programs, spurring vigorous debates among the groups who read
and discuss the story. College students and seasoned correctional professionals are fascinated to hear
about the perspective of a prisoner and the crosscurrents of race and class, motherhood, gender and
power, family, and even friendships that shape the experience of incarceration. A first-person narrative
offers a view of the experience of life in prison that even the best-researched and -reported academic
works cannot capture with the same vividness and immediacy. Since the release of the Netflix series, the
response of young people has been overwhelming, as they are moved to delve deeper behind the screen
characters who have captured their imaginations.
My story is a personal story. I was compelled to write the book in the hopes of offering a more
complex and complete picture of who is in prison in this country, why they are there, and what happens
to them there. In the U.S. prison life, economy and culture have metastasized in a short time span; we
have invested heavily in prisons, while the public institutions that actually prevent crime and strengthen
communitiesschools, hospitals, libraries and museums, community centersgo without. I wanted
to capture this reality by telling not just my own story but also the stories of the other women I met
along my journey through the criminal justice system. As a longtime communications professional,
it was important to me to present my story in a way that was accessible and engaging, even mixing
harsh realities with sometimes surprising humor, as a way to draw many different types of readers into
the world of prisons and jails. My talks and appearances on television and radio always spur spirited
discussions about transgression, punishment, inequality, rehabilitation, and redemption. My schedule of
public speaking engagements can be found at www.piperkerman.com, along with resources for people
interested in finding out more and in creating change in the criminal justice system.
Piper Kerman
THE WORK
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the world to find his lifes purpose. Wes Moore graduated from a
difficult childhood in the Bronx and Baltimore to an adult life that
would find him at some of the most critical moments in our recent
history: as a combat officer in Afghanistan; a White House fellow in a
time of wars abroad and disasters at home; and a Wall Street banker
during the financial crisis. In this insightful book, Moore shares the
lessons he learned from people he met along the wayfrom the brave
Afghan translator who taught him to find his fight, to the resilient
young students in Katrina-ravaged Mississippi who showed him the
true meaning of grit, to his late grandfather, who taught him to find
grace in service.
Moore also tells the stories of other twenty-first-century change-makers
whove inspired him in his search, from Daniel Lubetzky, the founder of
KIND, to Esther Benjamin, a Sri Lankan immigrant who rose to help
lead the Peace Corps. What their livesand his own misadventures and
moments of illuminationreveal is that our truest work happens when
we serve others, at the intersection between our gifts and our broken
world. Thats where we find the work that lasts.
An intimate narrative about finding meaning in a volatile age, The Work
will inspire readers to see how we can each find our own path to
purpose and help create a better world.
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Democratic National Convention, named one of Ebony magazines Top 30 Leaders Under 30 (2007), and, most
recently, dubbed one of the top young business leaders in America in Crains. He lives in Jersey City, New Jersey.
BOOK EXCERPT
The idea that we want to do our partbut are unsure of exactly how to do itis not unusual. We
start off our adult lives full of ideas about how we want to live, how we want to contribute to the greater
goodhow we want to do our partbut are immediately presented with the thorny puzzle of figuring
out how to marry our instincts to action.
When we are children our lives are relentlessly pacedsomeone tells us when to get up, when to
go to bed, when to eat, when to study. I have two beautiful children under the age of four and their
calendars are already stuffed with activities. But something important shifts in the way we live almost
from the moment we leave school. Our adult lives begin with a first moment of stillness. We leave
school and theres no next grade to go to, no one to tell us how to spend our timewe are faced with an
intimidating absence of inevitable next steps. Possibilities and choices suddenly abound. And for a lot of
us its terrifying.
There was once a clear answer to this terror. It used to be that we could extend childhoods safe
rhythms by burrowing deep into large institutionsthe military or a corporation or a university or the
governmentand moving up the ranks, like a kid getting passed from grade to grade. This brought a
measure of security, but it required submerging yourself in an institution and letting that institutions
logic guide the most productive moments of your life. This was in many ways the contract I was brought
up to believe in.
But my generation was among the last raised to believe there was a way to cheat the blank future
by burrowing ourselves in paternal institutions and following the traditional paths. We are now
confronted by a world where those institutions are in crisisand where the old model of work has
been thrown open, not only because so many forces (robotics, the Web, big data, a global labor market)
are conspiring to eliminate jobs and even whole industries, but because many of the jobs that remain
can feel unsatisfying on a personal level. David Graeber, an anthropologist and activist, recently wrote
this about the contemporary state of work: Huge swathes of people, in Europe and North America in
particular, spend their entire working lives performing tasks they secretly believe do not really need to
be performed. The moral and spiritual damage that comes from this situation is profound. It is a scar
across our collective soul. . . . How can one even begin to speak of dignity in labour when one secretly
feels ones job should not exist?
This has created a great deal of angst for all of us whove had to live through these shifts. But its
also created a greater sense of urgency around the task of designing our own lives to tap into our own
specific ideals, talents, and resourcesto find ways of not just working to live, but finding the work of
our lives.
The people whose stories I tell in this book have done just that, whether it was Michael Hancock, who
found his impact in the place he spent much of his life running away from, or Joe Manko learning that
change happens one hug at a time. Theyve also discovered that the great work we have in this life is
really to take care of each otherwhether it was John Galina and Dale Beatty showing that service is a
path to healing the scars of war, or Cara, Darr, and Tom Aley showing that capitalism doesnt have to be
a zero-sum blood sport but can be channeled as a creative force for good.
For all of themand for mefinding the work of their lives came back to that idea of doing our part.
Success and service are increasingly intertwined. To be clear, service doesnt necessarily mean running
for office, suiting up in a military uniform, or volunteering at a charityalthough it might. Service
simply means we embrace the possibility of living for more than ourselves. After talking with thousands
of people across this country over the last few yearshearing their stories and joining many of them in
their service projectsIm convinced that most of the time, thats what the voice inside of us is telling us
to do. To live for more than ourselves. Its the truth that hunts us down, our common calling. And when
we answer that call, well find that the worlds challenge and our own work inevitably meet.
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The Faithful Scribe

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By Shahan Mufti
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hahan Muftis family history, which he can trace back fourteen

hundred years to the inner circle of the prophet Muhammad, offers
an enlightened perspective on the mystifying history of Pakistan. Mufti
uses the stories of his ancestors, many of whom served as judges and
jurists in Muslim sharia courts of South Asia for many centuries, to
reveal the deepest rootsreal and imaginedof Islamic civilization in
Pakistan.
More than a personal history, The Faithful Scribe captures the larger
story of the worlds first Islamic democracy, and explains how the state
that once promised to bridge Islam and the West is now threatening to
crumble under historical and political pressure, and why Pakistans
destiny matters to us all.
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Harpers, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg
Businessweek, and many others. He splits his time between Pakistan and Richmond, Virginia, where he lives
with his wife and teaches journalism at the University of Richmond.
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As a writer of literary nonfiction, Im always searching for the most compelling characters
to carry the story. In the years that I covered war as an American journalist on the front
lines in Pakistan, there was never a shortage of options. There were always plenty of violent,
bloodthirsty villains to choose from, and then there were those larger-than-life heroes, capable
of compassion and goodness that can only be drawn from the madness of war.
But most of the characters I found myself drawn to lived seemingly ordinary lives while
navigating the landscape of war: the real estate agent who finds that war attracts speculative
buyers, which allows him to make a profit of his nations misery, or the curator whose
collection of ancient artifacts bleeds out of his museum and he witnesses his culture sapped
of meaning. War, I found through the lives of such characters, isnt always about choosing
between life and death. For most people war is about being transformed, finding ways to adapt
and survive.
In writing The Faithful Scribe, I set out to make Pakistan, the worlds longest-running
political experiment in Islam and democracy, more comprehensible for my reader. I knew that
the only way I could tell the story of this war-torn country and its complex relationship with
America was through characters that were, like many of my readers, living ordinary lives in
extraordinary times. And it didnt take long to recognize that my own family had exactly the
kinds of characters that I was always drawn to in my writing.
My parents had shuttled between the U.S. and Pakistan for decades. I was born in Ohio and
I have split my life equally between the two countriesIm 100 percent American and 100
percent Pakistani, as I write in the prologue of my book. Within the extensive network of my
relatives spread over many Pakistani cities and towns, I found civil engineers and university
professors and small-claims court judges. None of them real power players, but neither were
they destitute. These were mostly ordinary folk, placed perfectly on the peripheries of power,
where their lives and beliefs could be molded in the most profound ways by the violence and
war of their time.
My grandfather, for example, was pulled up the professional ranks after the Second World
War, when the partition of the subcontinent into Pakistan and India led to the largest
migration in human history, and created fortuitous vacuums in the bureaucracy of his new
country. My father was forced to leave his teaching job at a university in Lahore and flee to
America 30 years later, after literally dodging a bullet shot by a member of an Islamic political
student group in the 1970s. My cousin, a soldier in the Pakistan Army, died in 1988 alongside
the Pakistani military president and the U.S. ambassador, when their aircraft mysteriously
exploded in the sky.
In the end, naked violence, the absurdity of human suffering, the superhuman strength of a
few will always make the headlines of war. But decades and centuries of political and religious
conflict also seep into the tiniest crevices of human society and culture. This cancer of war
can alter the very DNA of nations, and there is often no going back. Since this books release, I
have traveled with it and met with people all over the country who share similar stories of how
a decade and more of American war has molded their lives in the most subtle and profound
ways. And such conversations only strengthen my essential thought behind this book: that
people who live through war on any side can recognize themselves in each others experiences.
Shahan Mufti
LITTLE FAILURE
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By Gary Shteyngart
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witty, deeply poignant account of his life so far. Shteyngart shares
his American immigrant experience, moving back and forth through
time and memory with humor and insight. The result is a resonant story
of family and belonging that feels both epic and intimate, and distinctly
his own.
Provocative, hilarious, and inventive, Little Failure reveals a deeper vein
of emotion in Gary Shteyngarts prose. It is a memoir of an immigrant
family coming to America, as told by a lifelong misfit who forged from
his imagination an essential literary voice and, against all odds, a place
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the author of the novels Super Sad True Love Story, which won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize and
was selected as one of the best books of the year by more than 40 news journals and magazines around the
world; Absurdistan, which was chosen as one of the ten best books of the year by The New York Times Book
Review and Time magazine; and The Russian Debutantes Handbook, winner of the Stephen Crane Award for
First Fiction and the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire,
GQ, Travel + Leisure, The New York Times Magazine, and many other publications and has been translated into 26 languages.
Shteyngart lives in New York City.
BOOK EXCERPT
1. THE CHURCH AND THE HELICOPTER

A year after graduating college, I worked downtown in the immense shadows of the
World Trade Center, and as part of my freewheeling, four-hour daily lunch break I
would eat and drink my way past these two giants, up Broadway, down Fulton Street
and over to the Strand Annex bookstore. In 1996, people still read books and the city
could support an extra branch of the legendary Strand in the financial district, which
is to say that stockbrokers, secretaries, government functionarieseverybody back
then was expected to have some kind of inner life.
In the previous year I had tried being a paralegal for a civil rights law firm but that
did not work out well. The paralegaling involved a lot of detail, way more detail than a
nervous young man with a ponytail, a small substance abuse problem, and a hemp pin
on his cardboard tie could handle. This was as close as I would ever come to fulfilling
my parents dreams of becoming a lawyer. Like most Soviet Jews, like most immigrants
from communist nations, my parents were deeply conservative and they never thought
much of the four years I had spent at my liberal alma mater, Oberlin College, studying
Marxist politics and book-writing. On his first visit to Oberlin my father stood on
a giant vagina painted in the middle of the quad by the campus Lesbian, Gay and
Bisexual organization, oblivious to the rising tide of hissing and camp around him, as
he enumerated to me the differences between laser jet and ink jet printers, specifically
the price points of the cartridges. If Im not mistaken, he thought he was standing on a
peach.
I graduated summa cum laude and this improved my profile with Mama and Papa,
but when I spoke to them it was understood that I was still a disappointment. Because
I was often sick and runny-nosed as a child (and as an adult) my father called me
soplyak, or Snotty. My mother was developing an interesting fusion of English and
Russian and, all by herself, had worked out the term failurchka, or Little Failure. That
term made it from her lips into the overblown manuscript of a novel I was typing
up in my spare time, one whose opening chapter was about to be rejected by the
important writing program at the University of Iowa, letting me know that my parents
werent the only ones to think that I was nothing.
Realizing that I was never going to amount to much, my mother, working her
connections as only a Soviet Jewish mama can, got me a job as a staff writer at an
immigrant resettlement agency downtown, which involved maybe thirty minutes
of work per year, mostly proofing brochures teaching newly arrived Russians the
wonders of deodorant, the dangers of AIDS, and the subtle satisfaction of not getting
totally drunk at some American party.
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Imperfect
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For reasons that remain a medical mystery, Jim Abbott was born without a right hand. Years
later, from atop the mound at Yankee Stadium, he became the 234th Major League baseball
pitcher to throw a no-hitter. Tracing Abbotts improbable and inspiring trajectory, Imperfect
is a tale about overcoming daunting odds and pursuing your dreams.
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Mom & Me & Mom

By Maya Angelou
With Mom & Me & Mom, Maya Angelou (one of the U.S.s most celebrated poets and the
acclaimed author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings) presents her most personal story to
date: that of her relationship with her own mother. Offering a vivid portrait of Vivian Baxter
Johnsonnurse, real estate agent, card dealer, parent, and officer in the Merchant Marine
Angelou presents the most intimate and emotional details of her own life, reaching beyond
the content of her previously published autobiographies to meditate on the causes and effects
of her separation from her mother.
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Buck
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MK Asante grew up under challenging circumstances. His father was largely absent, his
mother battled depression and mental illness, and his brother wound up in prison. To cope
with these calamities, MK turned to gang life. Buck is Asantes personal account of
overcoming these obstacles and using poetry to heal.
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Rosewater
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continually clash with a government that becomes more totalitarian with each passing day.
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Shes Not There
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The provocative bestseller Shes Not There is the winning, utterly surprising story of a person
changing genders. By turns hilarious and deeply moving, Jennifer Finney Boylan explores
the territory that lies between men and women, examines changing friendships, and rejoices
in the redeeming power of family.
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In Not That Kind of Girl, Dunham illuminates the experiences that are part of making ones
way in the world: falling in love, feeling alone, being ten pounds overweight despite eating
only health food, having to prove yourself in a room full of men twice your age, finding true
love, and most of all, having the guts to believe that your story is one that deserves to be told.
Exuberant, moving, and keenly observed, Not That Kind of Girl is a series of dispatches from
the frontlines of the struggle that is growing up.
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The Yellow World

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At thirteen, Espinosa was diagnosed with cancer, and he spent the next ten years in and out
of hospitals, undergoing one daunting procedure after another, starting with the amputation
of his left leg. After going on to lose a lung and half of his liver, he was finally declared
cancer-free. Only then did he realize that the one thing sadder than dying is not knowing
how to live. In this rich and rewarding book, Espinosa takes us into what he calls the yellow
world, a place where fear loses its meaning; where strangers become, for a moment, your
greatest allies; and where the lessons you learn will nourish you for the rest of your life.
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Told in second-person narrative, Sous Chef is an immersive, adrenaline-fueled run that offers
a fly-on-the-wall perspective on the food service industry, allowing readers to briefly inhabit
the hidden world behind the kitchen doors, in real time. This exhilarating account provides
regular diners and food enthusiasts alike a detailed insiders perspective, while offering
fledgling professional cooks an honest picture of what the future holds.
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Off the Sidelines

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Fourteen years before Kirsten Gillibrand succeeded Hillary Rodham Clinton as senator from
New York, she heard her future mentor say these life-changing words: Decisions are being
made every day in Washington, and if you are not part of those decisions, you might not like
what they decide, and youll have no one to blame but yourself. Now, in this extraordinary
memoir, the senator, wife, and mother of two recounts her personal journey in public service
and galvanizes women to reach beyond their busy lives and make a meaningful difference in
the world around them.
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A Cup of Water
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In this lyrical, coming-of-age memoir, Daisy Hernndez chronicles what the women in her
Cuban-Colombian family taught her about love, money, and race. These lessons define in
evocative detail what it means to grow up female in an immigrant home. A heartfelt
exploration of family, identity, and language, A Cup of Water Under My Bed is ultimately a
daughters story of finding herself and her community, and of creating a new, queer life.
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Naoki Higashida is severely autistic, with low verbal fluency. As a middle school student, he
used an alphabet grid to painstakingly write about his condition. The resulting book, The
Reason I Jump, provides incredible and invaluable insight into the inner-workings of a
mysterious mind. Through his writing, Naoki quietly works to discredit the belief that
autistic individuals lack empathy and understanding.
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Born to Balkan immigrants who divorced when he was a toddler, Zlatan Ibrahimovic
learned self-reliance from his rough-and-tumble neighborhood. While his father, a Bosnian
Muslim, drank to forget the war back home, his mothers household was engulfed in chaos.
Soccer was Zlatans release. Goal by astonishing goal, the brash young outsider grew into an
unlikely prodigy and, by his early twenties, an international phenomenon.
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After growing up in Britain following exile from Palestine in 1948, Karmi returns to her
homeland in the hope of helping with the peace process and the possibility of a Palestinian
state. She finds her family home has now been occupied, and much of the West Bank
militarized; meanwhile, her encounters with fellow Palestinians, politicians, and Israeli
soldiers force her to question what role the diaspora has in the future of the homeland, and
whether return is truly possible. Beautifully written and deeply moving, Return is a
passionate meditation on belonging.
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Mountains Beyond Mountains

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Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Kidder tells the true story of medical genius Paul Farmer and
shows how one person can effect global progress against seemingly impossible problems
TB, AIDS, povertywith creativity, knowledge, and determination.
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Strength in What Remains

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journey and of the ordinary people who helped him.
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Without You, There Is No Us
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Every day, three times a day, the students march in two straight lines, singing praises to
Kim Jong-il and North Korea: Without you, there is no motherland. Without you, there is no
us. Without You, There Is No Us offers a moving and incalculably rare glimpse of life in the
worlds most unknowable country, and at the privileged young men author Suki Kim calls
soldiers and slaves.
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Boston with the highest concentration of white poverty in the United States.
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Jerry McGill was thirteen years old, walking home through the projects of Manhattans
Lower East Side, when he was shot in the back by a stranger. Jerry survived, wheelchairbound for life; his assailant was never caught. Thirty years later, Jerry wants to say something
to the man who shot him.
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Employing a structure that deftly mirrors that of the novel, My Life in Middlemarch takes the
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Two kids named Wes Moore were born blocks apart within a year of each other. Both grew up
fatherless in similar Baltimore neighborhoods and had difficult childhoods. How, then, did one
grow up to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader,
while the other ended up a convicted murderer serving a life sentence?
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A Fifty-Year Silence is the deeply involving account of Miranda Richmond Mouillots journey
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Enriques Journey is an award-winning and timely account of one anguished familys experience
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Dreams from My Father is a memoir by President Barack Obama, first published in July 1995
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The Audacity of Hope

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Look Me in the Eye

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According to author John Elder Robison, Look Me in the Eye is about growing up with
Aspergers syndromea high-functioning form of autismovercoming my limitations, and
ultimately becoming a successful adult.
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Be Different
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Marcus Samuelsson has certainly carved a unique path to the top of the culinary world.
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City, Samuelsson managed to achieve success at a remarkably young age. Yes, Chef is a
stirring account of his ambition, continual pursuit of flavor, and struggle to find his place in
this exceedingly competitive profession.
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Debbie St. Germain was murdered at the hands of her fifth husband, an ex-cop. For her son
Justin, life is now starkly divided into two categories: before the murder and after. He moves
away, in an attempt to gain distance and a fresh start. However, St. Germain ultimately gets
pulled back to the dusty ghost town of his youth as he attempts to makes sense of his
mothers legacy, and his journey will make students reflect on murder and violence.
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Outcasts United is the story of a refugee soccer team, a remarkable woman coach, and a small
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woman he loves from the town desperate to destroy herthis
beautiful and devastating debut heralds the arrival of a major new voice
in fiction.
Ephram Jennings has never forgotten the beautiful girl with the long
braids running through the piney woods of Liberty, their small East
Texas town. Young Ruby, the kind of pretty it hurt to look at, has
suffered beyond imagining, so as soon as she can, she flees suffocating
Liberty for the bright pull of 1950s New York. Ruby quickly winds her
way into the ripe center of the citythe darkened piano bars and
hidden alleyways of the Villageall the while hoping for a glimpse of
the red hair and green eyes of her mother. When a telegram from her
cousin forces her to return home, thirty-year-old Ruby Bell finds herself
reliving the devastating violence of her girlhood. With the terrifying
realization that she might not be strong enough to fight her way back
out again, Ruby struggles to survive her memories of the towns dark
past. Meanwhile, Ephram must choose between loyalty to the sister who
raised him and the chance for a life with the woman he has loved since
he was a boy.
Full of life, exquisitely written, and suffused with the pastoral beauty of
the rural South, Ruby is a transcendent novel of passion and courage.
This wondrous page-turner rushes through the red dust and gossip of
Main Street, to the pit fire where men swill bootleg outside Blooms
Juke, to Celia Jenningss kitchen where a cake is being made, yolk by
yolk, that Ephram will use to try to begin again with Ruby. Utterly
transfixing, with unforgettable characters, riveting suspense, and
breathtaking, luminous prose, Ruby offers an unflinching portrait of
mans dark acts and the promise of the redemptive power of love.
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fifteen years. She attended Northwestern Universitys Medill School of Journalism, then moved to New York
and attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. A PEN/Rosenthal Fellow, Bond founded the Blackbird
Writing Collective in 2011. At present, Bond teaches therapeutic writing at Paradigm Malibu Adolescent
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Chapter One
WISHBONE
Ruby Bell was a constant reminder of what could befall a woman whose shoe heels
were too high. The people of Liberty Township wove her into cautionary tales of the
wages of sin and travel. They called her buck-crazy. Howling, half-naked mad. The fact
that she had come back from New York City made this some-what understandable
to the town. She wore gray like rain clouds and wandered the red roads in bared feet.
Calluses thick as boot leather. Hair caked with mud. Blackened nails as if she had
scratched the slate of night. Her acres of legs carrying her, arms swaying like a loose
screen. Her eyes the ink of sky, just before the storm. That is how Ruby walked when
she lived in the splintered house that Papa Bell had built before he passed. When she
dug into the East Texas soil under moonlight and wailed like a distant train. In those
years, after her return, people let Ruby be. They walked a curved path to avoid her
door. And so it was more than strange when someone walked the length of Liberty
and brought a covered cake to the Bells front porch. Ephram Jennings had seen the
gray woman passing like a haint through the center of town since shed returned to
Bell land in 1963. All of Liberty had. He had seen her wipe the spittle from her jerking
lips, run her still beautiful hands over the crust of her hair each day before shed
turned the corner in view of the town. Hed seen her walking like she had some place
she ought to have been, then five steps away from P & K Market, stand pillar still, her
rain cloud body shaking. Ephram had seen Miss P, the proprietor of the store, walk
nonchalantly out of her door and say, Honey, can you see if I got the rise in these
rolls right?Ephram watched Ruby stare past her but take the brown sack filled with
steaming yeast bread. Take it and walk away with her acres of legs carrying her, while
Miss P said, You come on back tomorrow, Ruby Bell, and help me out if you get the
chance. Ephram Jennings had watched this for eleven years. Seen her black-bottomed
foot kick a swirl of dust in its wake. Every day he wanted nothing more than to put
each tired sole in his wide wooden tub, brush them both in warm soapy water, cream
them with sweet oil and lanolin and then slip her feet, one by one into a pair of
red-heel socks.
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decorated, barrier-breaking, historic black regimentthe Harlem
Hellfighters.
In 1919, the 369th infantry regiment marched home triumphantly from
World War I. They had spent more time in combat than any other
American unit, never losing a foot of ground to the enemy or a man to
capture, and winning countless decorations. Though they returned as
heroes, this African-American unit faced tremendous discrimination,
even from their own government. The Harlem Hellfighters, as the
Germans called them, fought courageously onand offthe battlefield
to make Europe, and America, safe for democracy.
In The Harlem Hellfighters, bestselling author Max Brooks and
acclaimed illustrator Caanan White bring this history to life. From the
enlistment lines in Harlem to the training camp at Spartanburg, South
Carolina, to the trenches in France, they tell the heroic story of the
369th in an action-packed and powerful tale of honor and heart.
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I first learned of the Harlem Hellfighters from an Anglo-Rhodesian named Michael
Furmanovsky when I was 11. Michael was working for my parents while getting his
MFA in history from UCLA. He taught me about the British Empire, the Falklands
War, Hiroshima, the Holocaust, and a host of other topics not covered in my fifthgrade western civilization class. Of all his after-school lessons, the one that left the
deepest impression was the story of a unit of American soldiers who werent allowed
to fight for their country because of the color of their skin. To a white, privileged
kid growing up on the west side of L.A. in the 1980s, that kind of prejudice was just
inconceivable. When I confessed that I didnt know about them, he assured me that I
wasnt alone.
Ten years later I was an exchange student at the University of the Virgin Islands. The
experience brought me back into the orbit of the Hellfighters when, while walking
through an old cemetery, I noticed some graves from 1918. I wondered if they might
be casualties of the Great War, maybe even members of the 369th. I decided to ask my
professor of Virgin Islands history. He was an African-American from the mainland,
and to call him passionate would be a laughable understatement. With his beard and
spectacles and flaring dashiki, he would rail against the historical crimes committed
by white men of Europe and North America. Most heinous was the erasure of black
accomplishments by white historians. Colonization, he would tell us, begins with
the mind, and the best (or worst) way to colonize a people is to bury their past.
There were no black soldiers in World War I. That was his dismissive answer to my
question about the graves from 1918. When I started to argue, even bringing up the
name Harlem Hellfighters, he assured me that I must have been confused with the
Tuskegee Airmen of World War II. I was shocked. Here was a scholar, a crusader, a
thoughtful, driven man whod made it his lifes mission to trumpet the glory of Africa
and her diaspora, and HE didnt know about the Harlem Hellfighters. I wish I could
say that I decided then and there to write their story, but that would have to wait for
nearly another decade.
In 2006, I began collaborating with Avatar Press on a graphic companion to my first
book, The Zombie Survival Guide. I learned very quickly how different comic book
writing was from prose, but how similar it could be to movie scripts. I also realized
that comics presented a forum for telling very visual stories without the cumbersome
budget of movies or television. It seemed the ideal medium for telling the story of
the Harlem Hellfighters. Its now been close to six years since I began working with
William Christensen of Avatar Press and the amazingly talented artist Caanan White.
And now its time to share this heroic regiments story of courage, honor, and heart. I
hope that you and your students are as captivated by it as I have been.
Max Brooks
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persecuting anyone who was Jewish. Millions were shoved into
ghettos and forced to live under the swastika. Death camps were built
and something called Operation Reinhard was set into motion. Its
goal? To murder all the Jews of Poland.
The Commandant of Lubizec is a harrowing account of a death camp that
never actually existed but easily could have in the Nazi state. It is a
sensitive, accurate retelling of a place that went about the business of
genocide. Told as a historical account in a documentary style, it explores
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trains roll in, and it probes into the mind of its commandant, Hans-Peter
Guth. How could he murder thousands of people each day and then go
home to laugh with his children? This is not only an unflinching
portrayal of the machinery of the gas chambers, it is also the story of how
prisoners burned the camp to the ground and fled into the woods. It is a
story of rebellion and survival. It is a story of life amid death.
With a strong eye towards the history of the Holocaust, The
Commandant of Lubizec compels us to look at these extermination
centers anew. It disquiets us with the knowledge that similar events
actually took place in camps like Bezec, Sobibr, and Treblinka. The
history of Lubizec, although a work of fiction, is a chillingly blunt
distillation of real-life events.
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His work has appeared in some of the most vital literary journals in America, including Ploughshares, Glimmer
Train, The Missouri Review, and many others. He has been nominated seven times for the Pushcart Prize, been a
finalist for the High Plains Book Award, the Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Competition, and the Gival Press
Novel Award. He has won the Glimmer Train Fiction Award as well as a number of grants, including ones from
the Bush Artist Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. After living in Europe for many years,
he now lives in the Midwest where he is the Writer-in-Residence at Augustana College and also a faculty member in the lowresidency MFA Program at Sierra Nevada College. The author lives in Sioux Falls, SD.
A few years ago I was teaching a course on the Holocaust to a group of first-year
college students, and I started off with a simple question: How many of you have heard
of Auschwitz? As expected, all of their hands went up. And then I asked, How many of
you have heard of Treblinka? Only three or four hands went up. Beec? Not one hand.
Sobibr? Again, not a single hand. In talking to them further, I began to realize they didnt
know much about the Nazi death camps, and this disturbed me. Deeply.
Shortly after this I sat down and began to write The Commandant of Lubizec: A Novel of the
Holocaust and Operation Reinhard. I did this because I hoped to cast a little more illumination
on one of the darkest chapters in history. Maybe there were others who also didnt know much
about these killing centers? As I wrote, I imagined a class of college students. I imagined the
questions Id like them to consider.
Between the years 1941-1943, the Operation Reinhard camps of Treblinka, Sobibr, and
Beec murdered at least 1.6 million people at a breathtaking speed. It was industrialized
genocide on a scale the world had never seen before. And yet, today, few people know about
these camps. This has something to do with the lack of survivorship from these places (they
were death camps, after all) and this means we dont have enough stories to make them seem
real. While I was writing The Commandant of Lubizec, I was hoping to bring voice to the
voiceless and lift these death camps out of the pages of history. In order to get the history
correct though, I did three separate research trips to Poland where I visited not only Krakow,
Lublin, and Warsaw, but also the former Nazi camps as well. I also spent considerable time
researching the former Jewish communities, talking to curators, guides, historians, and
conducting interviews with survivors. My fictitious camp, Lubizec, is an aggregate of the real
life Operation Reinhard camps. That is to say, I use fiction to make history come alive in the
readers imagination. The victims in my book have stories and they become realthey arent
just abstract numbers. My book helps students to see the victims as people who had fully
formed lives that were cut short.
Since the books release, Ive spoken to readers at colleges and universities all across the
country. The response has been overwhelming and I cannot tell you how many emails Ive
received from strangers who have been moved by the book. One person called it un-putdown-able and many have mentioned they read it straight through the night. Professors have
said similar things about students reading it in one or two sittings. Others have commented on
the books power to get a whole class talking, even the quiet students. The director of at least
one Holocaust center is currently working on a Teachers Guide to help other centers across
the nation use the text for course adoption and, to my great delight, my novel was recently
chosen for National Reading Group Month. All of this is incredibly humbling and Im grateful
to see the narrative impacting so many people. My book certainly cracks open discussion
about the Holocaust, but it also ask questions about memory, history, how we record the past,
justice, human nature, kindness, psychology, and ethics. What is the role of the citizen and the
state? How do we think critically about society? These are vital questions for incoming college
students, and Im so pleased my book nudges them to consider such weighty issues.
One of the great delights of writing this novel has been meeting with students and hearing
how it has challenged them to think of their world in new ways. As a writer and a college
professor, I couldnt ask for anything more.
Patrick Hicks
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beautiful and distinguished family. A private island. A

brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy. A group
of four friendsthe Liarswhose friendship turns destructive. A

revolution. An accident. A secret. Lies upon lies. True love. The
truth. We Were Liars is a modern, sophisticated suspense novel
from New York Times bestselling author, National Book Award
finalist, and Printz Award honoree E. Lockhart. Read it. And if
anyone asks you how it ends, just LIE.
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The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks was a Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book, a finalist for the
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Once upon a time, there was a king who had three beautiful daughters.
Many tales begin that way, or with a variation on that age-old theme: a patriarch
whose girls are in competition with one another for his favor. For example, Beauty
and the Beast, Cinderella, and the tales called Cap O Rushes and As Meat Loves Salt.
Shakespeares King Lear has a similar premise: an impaired monarch bent on choosing
between his three daughtersand the toxic competition that choice forces upon the
women.
I studied fairy tales and Victorian literature for my doctorate at Columbia University,
and We Were Liars is a highly referential novel that builds on this universal theme of
sibling rivalrybut its also a thriller, an amnesia novel, a love story, and a first-person
account of an emotional breakdown.
I wanted to explore that fairy tale premise in a modern setting. A windswept,
privately owned island off the coast of Massachusetts is the summer home to entitled
WASP sexagenarian Harris Sinclair, his three beautiful daughters, and a crew of
grandchildren who suffer as pawns in the games being played as their mothers
compete for Sinclairs affectionand his estate. The novel is narrated by Cadence
Sinclair Eastman, the eldest grandchild and the probable heiress to the family fortune.
She has a tight bond with her cousins of similar age, and with an outsider boy of
Indian heritage, Gat Patil, who summers with the family but is never fully embraced
by them.
Gat acts as a catalyst for the political awakening of Cadence and her cousins. He
is an ardent, intellectual, outspoken boy, and when he and Cadence fall in love, the
Sinclair familys unspoken racism comes to the surface. Like Emily Bronts Wuthering
Heights (and heres the Victorian novel influence from my grad school days), We Were
Liars tells the story of a poor boy of color brought into a wealthy white family, his illfated love affair with one member of that family, and the way the familys disdain of
him pushes him and them to monstrous deeds.
All children overhear their adults fight. In some families, its loud. In others, its
whispered. In some families, its every day. In others, its rare. Universally, though,
children are disempowered, frustrated, and even frightened when adults argueand
in writing We Were Liars, I wanted to find a way to heighten and dramatize that
experience of disempowerment, and likewise to dramatize the moment in growing up
when you realize your parents might be deeply and profoundly wrong about how you
should live your life.
After publication, I learned that We Were Liars is a book people argue about.
It inspires disagreements and discussion, laments and anger. People reread it
and understand it differently the second time though. Sometimes they curse me,
sometimes they write me love letters. I couldnt be more pleased, either way.
E. Lockhart
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the woods as Russian soldiers abduct her father in the middle of the
night and then set fire to her home. When their lifelong neighbor
Akhmed finds Havaa hiding in the forest with a strange blue suitcase, he
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of Vital Phenomena won the 2014 National Book Critics Circles inaugural John Leonard Prize and the 2014
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in fiction, as well as the inaugural 2014 Carla Furstenberg Cohen Fiction Award.
Marras novel was a National Book Award long list selection as well as a shortlist selection for the FlahertyDunnan first novel prize. In addition, his work has been anthologized in The Best American Nonrequired
Reading 2012. He received an MFA from the Iowa WritersWorkshop and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, where he
now teaches as a Jones Lecturer in Fiction. He has lived and studied in Eastern Europe, and now resides in Oakland, CA.
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena is his first novel.
My interest in Chechnya began when I was in college. I spent a semester of my junior year
in St. Petersburg, where I lived down the street from a Russian military academy. Sixteenand seventeen-year-old cadets, dressed in sky-blue uniforms, marched in formation around
the neighborhood each afternoon. Several blocks away, outside a metro station, men a few
years older than the cadets gathered to panhandle at rush hour. These men also wore military
uniforms, though theirs werent as clean or so neatly pressed. A number had lost their legs
and wore hemmed trousers. These men were Russian veterans of the Chechen conflict that the
cadets might one day join. When the cadets marched passed, they stared at the veterans as if
peering into their own uncertain futures, while the veterans looked back with pity.
What was it, besides a few years and a few feet of concrete, that separated these two groups
of young men? The answer was Chechnya, a place that I went on to research, travel through,
and write about in my novel, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena.
Most present-day first-year students learned to read the newspaper around the same time
that religious extremism and its attendant acts of terror and war became headline news across
the country. But for all we know about the combatants and ideologues, we rarely glimpse the
lives of the civilians populating the landscapes where much of this violence unfolds. Whats it
like to be an ordinary civilian, neither overly religious nor overly political, caught between the
gears of history? How do we differentiate between right and wrong when the moral compass
is recalibrated to point to survival? How can you change your life and your country when you
are among those furthest from the source of political power but closest to its consequences?
These are some of the questions posed in A Constellation of Vital Phenomena. When I began
working on the book, I doubted a novel set in Chechnya would find much of a readership.
So its been a surprise and privilege to see it taken up by readers across the country, taught in
colleges and universities, and even purchased by President Obama.
Ive received kind and generous notes from survivors of the Chechen conflict, from
journalists, and from Americans who have never been abroad. The most common reaction
Ive received from readers has been a variation on: I didnt think I would recognize myself
in characters whose lives are so vastly different from mine. This is one of the main reasons
I believe my novel would make a good candidate for a first-year/common reading program.
If adopted, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena would ask students to empathize with
geopolitically and culturally remote characters who struggle with the same fundamental moral
questions we all face. While rooted in Chechnya, the themes and concerns that grow from the
novel are universal.
When I was in St. Petersburg, I remember leaving particularly good classes feeling as if
the professor had tugged on the margins of my vision, making the world I saw larger, more
complex, more mysterious. I deeply hope you will finish A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
with a similar feeling.
Anthony Marra
Foreign Gods, Inc.

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rom a disciple of the late Chinua Achebe comes a masterful and universally acclaimed novel that is at once a taut, literary thriller and an
indictment of greeds power to subsume all things, including the sacred.
Foreign Gods, Inc. tells the story of Ike, a New York-based Nigerian cab
driver who sets out to steal the statue of an ancient war deity from his
home village and sell it to a New York gallery.
Ikes plan is fueled by desperation. Despite a degree in economics from a
major American college, his strong accent has barred him from the
corporate world. Forced to eke out a living as a cab driver, he is unable to
manage the emotional and material needs of a temperamental AfricanAmerican bride and a widowed mother demanding financial support.
When he turns to gambling, his mounting losses compound his woes.
And so he travels back to Nigeria to steal the statue, where he has to deal
with old friends, family, and a mounting conflict between those in the
village who worship the deity and those who practice Christianity.
A meditation on the dreams, promises and frustrations of the immigrant
life in America; the nature and impact of religious conflicts; an
examination of the ways in which modern culture creates or heightens
infatuation with the exotic, including the desire to own strange objects
and hanker after ineffable illusions; and an exploration of the shifting
nature of memory, Foreign Gods, Inc. is a brilliant work of fiction that
illuminates our globally interconnected world like no other.
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a magazine published by the Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe. He has been a visiting professor at Brown
University, Connecticut College, Simons Rock College, Trinity College, and the University of Lagos (as a
Fulbright scholar). The author of Arrows of Rain, Ndibe served on the editorial board of the Hartford Courant
where his essays won national and state awards. He has written for The New York Times, The Guardian (UK), and
Sahara Reporters among other news outlets. He earned MFA and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
He lives in West Hartford, CT, with his wife, Sheri, and their three children.
Why Read Foreign Gods, Inc.?

A significant and growing percentage of freshmen and students at American universities
are immigrants or children of recent immigrants from different parts of the world. Even
those students whose parents have lived in the U.S. for several generations are quite familiar
with more recent comers, and often deeply curious about the shape of their inner lives, their
motivations, dreams, and anxieties.
The U.S. remains the favorite destination of immigrants, drawn by the grand narrative
of American opportunity, a certain democratic impulse that rewards the enterprising and
exceptionally creative. It was this ideal that drew me to the U.S. 27 years ago when the
Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe invited me to be the founding editor of a general interest
magazine he and some academic colleagues wished to set up in America.
The essence of that idea is this: that if an immigrant works hard, refrains from cutting
corners, applies inventive acumen, and takes his moral vitamin, s/hes bound to excel.
On the one hand, this narrative is borne out by the impressive profiles of immigrants who
started, it seemed, from nothingand yet became high achievers, in the process transforming
their lives and society at once. On the other hand, there is the large number of hard-working
immigrants, sticklers by the rules, who nevertheless failed to make it. On the whole, its
the former group that is rendered visible, hardly the latterexcept in simplistic, sometimes
hysterical, media accounts of illegal aliens driving up crime rates and exploiting social
welfare benefits.
Foreign Gods, Inc. centers on the experiences, choices and exploits of its protagonist Ike
Uzondu, a Nigerian immigrant whose story is, for me, both unique and powerfully resonant.
Like many a freshman, Ike arrived in the U.S. as a student, earning a cum laude in economics
from Amherst College. He looks forward to getting a high-paying corporate job to enable him
to live out his dreams, which include taking care of his widowed mother and poor sister. My
dramatization of the impediments in the protagonists way soon becomes an occasion to write
a novel that touches on various themes that are central to the concerns of freshmen.
Despite its germination as an immigrant story, Foreign Gods, Inc. became for me a shapeshifting narrative that I used to examine such subjects as the fascinating ways in which
globalization is reshaping cultural tastes and spawning new fantasies; the uses and abuses of
religion; the nature and implications of religious conflict; an obsession with materialism that
often culminates in the commercialization of the sacred; the nature, power and consequences
of greed; the role of language in forming or eroding identity; the competing notions of
knowledge; the whimsical factors that determine whos in and whos out in the mysterious
lottery of American opportunity; and the role of gender in American and African settings.
I hope freshmen will find my novel an entertaining book that strikes at ideas and themes
that are deeply pertinent to their experience. I am confident that the novel will challenge
them, enlarge their perspectives, and provoke lively, engaged conversations.
Okey Ndibe
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coming-of-age story as well as a brilliant dissection of class, race,
and gender in a hothouse of adolescent angst and ambition.
Lee Fiora is an intelligent, observant fourteen-year-old when her father
drops her off in front of her dorm at the prestigious Ault School in
Massachusetts. She leaves her animated, affectionate family in South
Bend, Indiana, at least in part because of the boarding schools glossy
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girls in kilts hold lacrosse sticks on pristinely mown athletic fields, and
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like an outsider and is both drawn to and repelled by other loners. By
the time shes a senior, Lee has created a hard-won place for herself at
Ault. But when her behavior takes a self-destructive and highly public
turn, her carefully crafted identity within the community is shattered.
Ultimately, Lees experiencescomplicated relationships with teachers;
intense friendships with other girls; an all-consuming preoccupation
with a classmate who is less than a boyfriend and more than a crush;
conflicts with her parents, from whom Lee feels increasingly distant,
coalesce into a singular portrait of the painful and thrilling adolescence
universal to us all.
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Mississippi Reviews annual fiction contest in 1998. Her writing has appeared in Fast Company, The New York
Times, The Washington Post, Salon, and Real Simple, and on public radios This American Life. A graduate of
Stanford University and the Iowa WritersWorkshop, she is the recipient of a Michener-Copernicus Society
of America Award. Sittenfeld was the 20022003 writer in residence at St. Albans School in Washington, D.C.,
where she continues to work as a part-time as an English teacher.
When Prep was published in 2005, I was thrilled that it resonated with so many
people. Countless readers sought me out to tell me that it captured their own
feelings of awkwardness, insecurity, and excitement when they left home for the
first time. What I hadnt anticipated was that, in most cases, they were referring to
their experiences not at boarding school but in college. Although my protagonist,
Lee, is fourteen when she travels to Massachusetts to enroll in the elite Ault School,
her adventures and misadventures actually reflect those of many college freshmen:
her exposure to other students whose intelligence and sophistication impress and
intimidate her and whose families are either far wealthier or far poorer than hers; her
shifting relationship with her own family at home; the intimacy of dorm life, where
she might find herself brushing her teeth next to someone shes never spoken to; and
the confusion and joy of early sexual experimentation.
Lee is not a role model; at times, she acts selfishly, reveals prejudices, and tells lies.
The most common reactions Ive encountered when visiting book clubs or classes
whove read Prep fall into two categories: People either say, I identified more strongly
with Lee than I ever have with a fictional character, and yet I thought I was the only
one who felt this way, or I was incredibly frustrated by Lees foolish choices, and I
wondered if there was something wrong with her. These diverging viewpoints make
for impassioned discussions, and they often prompt participants to reflect on and
share personal experiences. For people who dont identify with Lee, it can be eyeopening to realize how many of their peers are quietly gripped by social anxiety.
Among the places Prep has been taught are the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis,
Maryland; a boys prep school in Dallas, Texas; and at MIT in Cambridge,
Massachusetts. People have told me that they read the book so many times that they
memorized passages. In fact, Im pasting a link below to an article from the website
Bustle titled Why Ive Read Curtis Sittenfelds Prep At Least Ten Times, and Why I
Might Not Read It Again. It includes the line, I followed Lees story and return to it
time and time again because the writing is great, but I have this morbid longing to see
who I was and who I am, and I feel like some of the answers are hiding underneath
that grosgrain book cover. I am very proud of how many readers have been moved,
frustrated, entertained, and enlightened by Prep.
Curtis Sittenfeld
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Ladydi was born into a world where being a girl is a dangerous thing. In Guerrero, Mexico,
drug lords are kings. Ladydi and her friends dream of a future that holds more promise than
mere survival, finding humor, solidarity, and fun in the face of tragedy. A portrait of women
in rural Mexico and an exploration of the hidden consequences of an unjust war, Prayers for
the Stolen is a story of friendship, family, and determination.
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From two-term Poet Laureate of the United States Billy Collins comes his first volume of new
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selections from his four most recent booksNine Horses, The Trouble with Poetry, Ballistics,
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By Jamie Ford
Twelve-year-old William Eng currently resides at Seattles Sacred Heart Orphanage. On a
birthday outing to the movies, he catches a glimpse of an actress named Willow Frost.
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his past. Set during the Depression, this powerful novel is a story about individuals seeking
love, forgiveness, and, ultimately, a home.
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Recently canned professor of American literature Chris Jaynes has just made a startling
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Poes strange and only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Thus begins
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EVERY DAY
By David Levithan
In his New York Times bestselling novel, David Levithan, co-author of bestsellers Will
Grayson, Will Grayson and Nick and Norahs Infinite Playlist, introduces readers to a love
story about A, a teen who wakes up every morning in a different body, living a different life.
This new paperback edition features six additional chapters about As earlier life.
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Little Wolves
By Thomas Maltman
Set on the Minnesota prairie in the late 1980s during a drought season thats pushing family
farms to the brink, Little Wolves features the intertwining stories of a father searching for
answers after his son commits a heinous murder, and a pastors wife (and washed-out scholar
of early Anglo-Saxon literature) who has returned to the town for mysterious reasons of
her own.
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LET THE GREAT

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In 1970s New York, against the backdrop of Philippe Petits tightrope walk between the Twin
Towers, disparate characters seek solace and redemption.
A sweeping and radical social novel, Let the Great World Spin captures the spirit of America
in a time of transition, extraordinary promise, and, in hindsight, heartbreaking innocence.
Hailed as a fiercely original talent (San Francisco Chronicle), award-winning novelist
McCann has delivered a triumphantly American masterpiece that awakens in us a sense of
what the novel can achieve, confront, and even heal.
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By Colum McCann
Colum McCanns latest tour de force manages to span an impressive 150 years. Weaving the
tale through four generations of women from a matriarchal clan, this epic novel ingeniously
connects an American slave landing in Ireland, the first transatlantic flight, and a U.S.
senator crossing the ocean to help achieve peace in Ireland. TransAtlantic is a profound
meditation on identity and history in a wide world that grows somehow smaller and more
wondrous with each passing year.
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The town of Henbane sits deep in the Ozark Mountains. Folks there still whisper about Lucy
Danes mother, a bewitching stranger who appeared long enough to marry Carl Dane and
then vanished when Lucy was just a child. Now on the brink of adulthood, Lucy experiences
another loss when her friend Cheri disappears and is then found murdered, her body placed
on display for all to see. Lucy is haunted by the two lost girlsthe mother she never knew
and the friend she couldnt save.
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Bartleby the Scrivener
By Herman Melville
Set in the mid-19th century on New York Citys Wall Street, Bartleby the Scrivener is Herman
Melvilles most prescient story: what if a young man caught up in the rat race of commerce
finally just said, I would prefer not to?
The tale is one of the final works of fiction published by Melville before, slipping into despair
over the continuing critical dismissal of his work after Moby-Dick, he abandoned publishing
fiction.
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Part war saga, part coming-of-age tale, part story of love and friendship, Girl at War is a
powerful debut novel by a young writer whose work will appeal to readers of Anthony
Marra, Ta Obreht, and Anthony Doerr.
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mysterious circumstances surrounding her beloved grandfathers recent death. Searching for
clues, she turns to his worn copy of The Jungle Book and the stories he told her of his
encounters over the years with the deathless man. But most extraordinary of all is the story
her grandfather never told herthe legend of the tigers wife.
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The Rise & Fall of Great Powers

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By Tom Rachman
Tooly Zylberberg, the American owner of an isolated bookshop in the Welsh countryside,
conducts a life full of reading, but with few human beings. Books are safer than people, who
might ask awkward questions about her life. She prefers never to mention the strange events
of her youth, which mystify and worry her still.
Years later, startling news arrives from a long-lost boyfriend in New York, raising old
mysteries and propelling her on a quest around the world in search of answers.
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Writing brilliantly and profoundly about class, sex, love, loss, work, despair, and war,
Saunders cuts to the core of the contemporary experience. These stories take on the big
questions and explore the fault lines of our own morality, delving into the questions of what
makes us good and what makes us human.
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The Execution of Noa P. Singleton

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At just 25, Noa P. Singleton was confined to death row, awaiting execution for the murder of
her fathers pregnant girlfriend. As the months pass and her execution date gets closer, Noa is
visited by the mother of her victim, a high-powered attorney, who has other plans for her.
Exploring dark psychological aspects of guilt and the human desire for normalcy, The
Execution of Noa P. Singleton is ultimately a provoking examination of the blurred spectrum
of good and evil.
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By Amanda Eyre Ward
From the acclaimed author of How to Be Lost and Close Your Eyes comes a beautiful and
heartrending novel about motherhood, resilience, and faitha ripped-from-the-headlines
story of two families on both sides of the American border.
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INSPIRATION & GUIDANCE
If This Isnt Nice, What Is?

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est known as one of our most astonishing and enduring

contemporary novelists, Kurt Vonnegut was also a celebrated
commencement address giver. He himself never graduated college, so
his words to any class of graduating seniors always carried the delight,
and gentle irony, of someone savoring an achievement he himself had
not had occasion to savor on his own behalf.
Selected and introduced by fellow novelist and friend Dan Wakefield,
the speeches in If This Isnt Nice, What Is? capture this side of Kurt
Vonnegut for the first time in book form. There are nine speeches, seven
given at colleges, one to the Indiana Civil Liberties Union, one on the
occasion of Vonnegut receiving the Carl Sandburg Award. In each of
these talks Vonnegut takes pains to find the few things worth saying and
a conversational voice to say them in that isnt heavy-handed or
pretentious or glib, but funny and serious and joyful even if sometimes
without seeming so.
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Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian; and, with Lee Stringer, Like Shaking Hands with God. Seven Stories also publishes Kurts
son Mark Vonneguts bestselling memoir, Eden Express: a Memoir of Insanity, with a foreword by Kurt Vonnegut,
and Gregory D. Sumners Unstuck in Time: A Journey through Kurt Vonneguts Life and Novels.
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Wakefield is the author of the memoirs New York in the Fifties and Returning: A Spiritual Journey. His novel Going
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James at Fifteen. He lives in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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BOOK EXCERPT
How to Make Money and Find Love

Fredonia College, May 20, 1978
Your class spokesperson has just said that she is sick and tired of hearing people say, Im
glad Im not a young person these days. All I can say is, Im glad Im not a young person
these days.
Your colleges president wished to exclude all negative thinking from his farewell to you, and
so has asked me to make this announcement: All persons who still owe parking fees are to pay
up before leaving the property, or there will be monkey business with their transcripts.
When I was a boy in Indianapolis, there was a humorist there named Kin Hubbard. He
wrote a few lines for The Indianapolis News every day. Indianapolis needs all the humorists it
can get. He was often as witty as Oscar Wilde. He said, for instance, that prohibition was better
than no liquor at all. He said that whoever named near-beer was a poor judge of distance.
I assume that the really important stuff has been spread out over your four years here and
that you have no need of anything much from me. This is lucky for me. I have only this to say,
basically: This is the endthis is childhoods end for certain. Sorry about that, as they used
to say in the Vietnam War.
Perhaps you have read the novel Childhoods End by Arthur C. Clarke, one of the few
masterpieces in the field of science fiction. All of the others were written by me. In Clarkes
novel, the characters undergo spectacular evolutionary change. The children become very
different from the parents, less physical, more spiritualand one day they form up into a sort
of column of light which spirals out into the universe, its mission unknown. The book ends
there. You seniors, however, look a great deal like your parents, and I doubt that you will go
radiantly into space as soon as you have your diplomas in hand. It is far more likely that you
will go to Buffalo or Rochester or East Quogueor Cohoes.
And I suppose you will all want money and true love, among other things. I will tell you
how to make money: Work very hard. I will tell you how to win love: Wear nice clothing and
smile all the time. Learn the words to all the latest songs.
What other advice can I give you? Eat lots of bran to provide necessary bulk in your diet.
The only advice my father ever gave me was this: Never stick anything in your ear. The tiniest
bones in your body are inside your ears, you knowand your sense of balance, too. If you
mess around with your ears, you could not only become deaf, but you could also start falling
down all the time. So just leave your ears completely alone. Theyre fine, just the way they are.
Dont murder anybodyeven though New York State does not use the death penalty.
Thats about it.
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Nearly all philosophical questions stem from one great queryhow do you live? Its a
question continually contemplated by many Renaissance writers, none more than Michel de
Montaigne. In Sarah Bakewells spirited biography, students will delve into Montaignes life
through close examination of the inquiries he posed and the answers he explored.
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The New Yorker
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Dancing on the Head of a Pen

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By Robert Benson
In this masterful blend of the practical and the spiritual, Robert Benson invites you into the
work and rewards of a writers life. More than a primer on effective writing, Dancing on the
Head of a Pen is a winsome guide to the place in the heart where the life of the spirit meets
the life of art.
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The Freedom
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Straight from the front line of urban America, this is Erin Gruwells inspiring story of one
fiercely determined teacher and her remarkable students. The Freedom Writers movement
was born in 1994 from her simple notion: inspire young, underprivileged students to pick up
pens instead of guns. Since then, the Freedom Writers Foundation has evolved into a
renowned charitable organization led by Gruwell, with the unwavering support of the
original Freedom Writers.
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Teaching Hope
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Being Both
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Susan Katz Miller grew up with a Jewish father and Christian mother, and was raised Jewish.
Now in an interfaith marriage herself, she is one of the growing number of Americans who
are boldly electing to raise children with both faiths. In Being Both, Miller draws on original
surveys and interviews, as well as on her own journey, to chronicle this controversial
grassroots movement.
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Congratulations, by the way

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By George Saunders
Most convocation addresses are delivered and quickly forgotten. Not so with George
Saunderss 2013 speech at Syracuse University. After the transcript was posted by The New
York Times, the address went viral. Saunderss powerful message about living with kindness
struck an immediate chord with students. Congratulations, by the Way, which is full of the
writers trademark wit, offers an expanded version of this highly lauded speech.
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Trying not to try
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By Edward Slingerland
Why is it always so hard to fall asleep the night before an important meeting? Or to be
relaxed on a first date? In every case, striving seems to backfire. In Trying Not to Try, Edward
Slingerland explores the power of spontaneityan ancient Chinese virtue that cognitive
scientists are only now beginning to understandand why its essential to the well-being of
both individuals and society.
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By Chris Stedman
Born into a secular family, author Chris Stedmans search for meaning led him to evangelical
Christianity. Coming out brought him full circle, to atheism. However, as he deftly argues in
Faithiest, these experiences have made him uniquely positioned to present a way that atheists
and the religious can work together to create a better world.
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The Rev. William F. Schulz, President, Unitarian Universalist
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HISTORY & SOCIETY
Unfair
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By Adam Benforado
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crusading legal scholar exposes the powerful psychological forces

that undermine our criminal justice systemand affect us all.
Our nation is founded on the notion that the law is impartial, that legal
cases are won or lost on the basis of evidence, careful reasoning, and
nuanced argument. But they may, in fact, turn on the temperature of the
courtroom, the camera angle of a defendants taped confession, or a
simple word choice or gesture during a cross-examination. In Unfair,
law professor Adam Benforado shines a light on this troubling new
research, showing, for example, that people with certain facial features
receive longer sentences and that judges are far more likely to grant
parole first thing in the morning. In fact, over the last two decades,
psychologists and neuroscientists have uncovered many cognitive forces
that operate beyond our conscious awarenessand Benforado argues
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we see now will only widen, as powerful players and institutions find
ways to exploit the weaknesses in our legal system.
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court casesfrom the border collie put on trial in Kentucky to the five
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and protect societys weakest members, convicting the innocent while
letting dangerous criminals go free. With clarity and passion, he lays out
the scope of the problem and proposes a wealth of reforms that could
prevent injustice and help us achieve true fairness and equality before
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Harvard Law School, he served as a federal appellate law clerk and an attorney at Jenner & Block. He has
published numerous scholarly articles, and his op-eds and essays have appeared in a variety of publications
including the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and Legal Times. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife
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The death of Trayvon Martin in 2012, and his killers subsequent acquittal, led many
to condemn our criminal justice system as fundamentally broken. And in the wake
of high-profile cases in New York, Cleveland, and Ferguson, questions about how the
law reflectsand exacerbatesracial and economic disparities have continued to
dominate the national conversation. As a society, we are desperately trying to make
sense of rampant gun violence, police brutality, overcrowded prisons, and widening
inequality.
Indeed, crime and the responses to crime define our livesthe paths we walk, the
rules we follow, the taxes we pay, the novels we read. And there is something about
criminal law stories that hold us by the edge of our seat, whether we are listening to
a Serial podcast or watching True Detective. The cases I explore in Unfair have all the
drama of Law & Order or CSI, but theyre real, and they raise compelling questions:
What could lead an otherwise upstanding attorney to conceal a critical piece of
evidence from the other side? Why would a person confess to a crime she didnt
commit? Is it possible to tell whether someone is guilty by looking at a scan of his
brain?
Emerging evidence from psychology and neuroscience is beginning to provide
answers. Drawing on my own empirical research and the studies I teach at the
graduate level, Unfair reveals the hidden forces that distort our criminal justice system
and cause people to lose faith in its power to safeguard our fundamental freedoms.
With an interdisciplinary approachbringing together history, psychology, sociology,
philosophy, ethics, public policy, neuroscience, and lawthe book is a perfect choice
for the orientation experience, introducing students to fields they may wish to pursue
in the years to come.
But my broader aim is to provide readersand students, in particularwith a new,
more sophisticated perspective on societys most pressing problems. I wrote Unfair to
encourage civic engagement and active citizenshipto prompt people to think about
how to reform our legal system so that it lives up to our ideals. And Im always excited
when I speak about my work to see how readily people see the connections to other
fields outside of lawfrom business to public health to education. Hearing about
this behavioral research inevitably leads people to think about ways it can be applied.
Many of the dynamics I discussfrom the origins of dishonesty to the benefits of
diversity to the biases people bring to reviewing evidenceare of special interest to
universities.
I would love to help students navigate these critical issues. And as an experienced
teacher and lecturer, Im well positioned to do so. One of my greatest joys is showing
young people how to look at topics they think they know with new eyes. Thats what
college is all about. If you have any questions about the book or about me, please
contact me through my website, adambenforado.com.
Adam Benforado
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Behind the
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uncompromising reporting, a bewildering age of global change and
inequality is made human.
Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near
the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to prosper, Annawadians are
electric with hope. Abdul, a reflective and enterprising Muslim teenager,
sees a fortune beyond counting in the recyclable garbage that richer
people throw away. Asha, a woman of formidable wit and deep scars
from a childhood in rural poverty, has identified an alternate route to the
middle class: political corruption. With a little luck, her sensitive,
beautiful daughterAnnawadis most-everything girlwill soon
become its first female college graduate. And even the poorest
Annawadians, like Kalu, a fifteen-year-old scrap-metal thief, believe
themselves inching closer to the good lives and good times they call the
full enjoy.
But then Abdul the garbage sorter is falsely accused in a shocking
tragedy; terror and a global recession rock the city; and suppressed
tensions over religion, caste, sex, power, and economic envy turn brutal.
As the tenderest individual hopes intersect with the greatest global
truths, the true contours of a competitive age are revealed. And so, too,
are the imaginations and courage of the people of Annawadi.
With intelligence, humor, and deep insight into what connects human
beings to one another in an era of tumultuous change, Behind the
Beautiful Forevers carries the reader headlong into one of the twenty-first
centurys hidden worlds, and into the lives of people impossible to forget.
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She is the winner of a MacArthur genius grant, a National Magazine Award for Feature Writing, and the Pulitzer
Prize. She has divided her time between the U.S. and India for 10 years.
As jobs and capital whip around the planet, college students will graduate into a world
where economic instability and social inequality are increasing and geographic boundaries
matter less and less. Unfortunately, globalization and social inequality remain two of the most
over-theorized, under-reported issues of our age. My book is an intimate investigative account
of how this volatile new reality affects the young people of an Indian slum called Annawadi.
Like young people elsewhere, the Annawadians are trying to figure out their place in a world
where temp jobs are becoming the norm, adaptability is everything, and bewildering change is
the one abiding constant.
Behind the Beautiful Forevers took me three hard years to report, and one thought that
sustained me was that I had a unique opportunity to show American readers that the distance
between themselves and, say, a teenaged boy in Mumbai who finds an entrepreneurial niche in
other peoples garbage, is not nearly as great as they might think. In the two decades Ive spent
writing about poverty and how people get out of it, Ive come to believe, viscerally, that there
are deep connections among individuals that transcend specificities of geography, culture,
religion, or class. The problem is that, in a time of high walls and security gates, its getting
harder for people of means to grasp the struggles of less privileged people.
Behind one such high wall, near the increasingly glamorous Mumbai airport, a sensitive
girl is studying Othello in a makeshift hut by a vast sewage lake and dreading an arranged
marriage that might send her to a rural village. A convention-defying disabled woman is
longing to be acknowledged as a valid human being. A smart teenaged boy named Mirchi
is resisting the garbage-recycling work that is his family trade. Instead he dreams of being a
waiter at a fancy hotel, sticking toothpicks into cubes of cheese. Watch me, he snaps at his
mother one day. Ill have a bathroom as big as this hut! Over the course of time, as Mirchi
and the other residents of the slum apply their imaginations to overcoming corruption and
injustice and making better lives for themselves, the broader contours of the market-global age
are gradually revealed.
Although Im elated when readers join me in thinking about how to build a fairer world
for people, I dont consider didactic lectures an effective way to engage peopleparticularly
young peoplein questions about fairness and justice. Nor do I think young people want
mawkishly sentimental or sensationalized nonfiction. Stereotypes put them off, and they
know when theyre being manipulated. What they want, in my experience, is good, concrete
information from which they can work out what they think for themselves.
With a combination of extensive observation and documents-based reporting, I try to
pull the reader in close to the lives and dilemmas of the poor while unfolding a story that is
powerful and honest enough to keep readers turning the pages. By the last page, Id like to
believe that some young readers will also find themselves wrestling with essential questions
of our time: about how opportunity is distributed across the world; about what an individual
should be willing to give up to get ahead; about the interconnections between, say, the collapse
of investment banks in Manhattan and the price Mumbai waste-pickers receive for their empty
plastic water bottles; about whether it is possible to be good and moral in a society that is not
good and moral; and about the ultimate value of a human life.
Katherine Boo
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the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who
innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on
their own over brainstorming in teams. Although they are often labeled
quiet, it is to introverts we owe many of the great contributions to
societyfrom Van Goghs Sunflowers to the invention of the personal
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introverts, and how much we lose in doing so. Susan Cain charts the
rise of the Extrovert Ideal over the twentieth century and explores its
far-reaching effectshow it influences everything from how
parishioners worship to who excels at Harvard Business School. And
she draws on cutting-edge research on the biology and psychology of
temperament to reveal how introverts can modulate their personalities
according to circumstance, how to empower an introverted child, and
how companies can harness the natural talents of introverts. This
extraordinary book has the power to permanently change how we see
introverts, and, equally important, how they see themselves.
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The Atlantic; on Time.com; and on PsychologyToday.com. Her 2012 TED talk has been viewed more than ten
million times. Cain graduated with honors from Princeton University and Harvard Law School. For Cains TED
talk, go to tiny.cc/qpi4qw.

I first thought about the powers and challenges of introversion some 26 years ago, when I began my
freshman year at Princeton University.
From the minute I set foot on campus, I saw that college could be an extraordinary place for
introverts and extroverts alike. A place where you were expected to spend your time reading and
writing. A place where it was cool to talk about ideas. A place where you could create your own brand
of social life. If you were an introvert, you could find friends with common interests and enjoy their
company one-on-one or in small groups; if you were an extrovert, the social possibilities were endless,
just the way extroverts like them.
I was an introvert, and I thrived.
Not that it was always easy. At Princeton, as on many campuses, many social and academic structures
seemed designed for extroverts. I wondered why the cafeteria was arranged so that the large circular
tables, where the most gregarious students sat, were located near the sunny windows, while the
booths for quieter chats were off in the shadowy margins of the room. I wondered whether any of my
classmates longed to munch on a sandwich behind a newspaper as I did, instead of being expected
to participate in a social free-for-all three times a day. I learned to participate in Princetons excellent
seminars, but privately I preferred lectures where you could soak up knowledge and think your own
thoughts instead of having to perform them out loud.
Today, after interviewing hundreds of current and former college students, I know I wasnt the only
one who felt this way. Not by a long shot.
Did you know that one-third to one-half of the population is introverted? Thats one out of every two
or three students on campus. But most schools, workplaces, and religious institutions are organized
with extroverts in mindeven though many of the achievements that have propelled society, from the
theory of evolution to The Cat in the Hat, came from people who were quiet, cerebral, and sensitive.
Even in less obviously introverted occupations, like finance, politics, and activism, some of the greatest
leaps forward were made by introverts: Eleanor Roosevelt. Al Gore. Warren Buffett. Gandhi.
This is no coincidence. There are specific physiological and psychological advantages to being an
introvert and Ill share them with your students through the lens of my book, Quiet. Ill tell your
students how we can all learn from the introverts among us, including how to be more creative,
think more carefully, love more gently, and organize our schools and workplaces more productively.
Quiet also challenges contemporary myths of human nature, including the belief that creativity is
fundamentally collaborative, and our preference for charismatic leaders.
But Quiet offers insights and advice for extroverts too, and it gives all students the license to talk
about a social dynamic theyve been living and breathing but have never given voice to. Introversion/
extroversion is as fundamental a difference between people as gender, yet until now weve lacked the
vocabularyand the cultural permissionto talk about it. Ive never presented the ideas in Quiet
without getting people buzzing about whether
they and their friends are introverts or extroverts,
and what that means for their relationships,
career choices, and life paths. Quiet is sure to
spark animated discussions across campus, from
the psychology and social-science classroom to
the dorm room and dining hall.
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around campuses nationwide, as part of your
Freshman Experience Programs. Please contact
me through my blog, ThePowerofIntroverts.com,
to discuss opportunities.
Susan Cain
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n the tradition of The Power of Habit and Thinking, Fast and Slow
comes a practical, playful, and endlessly fascinating guide to what we
really know about learning and memory todayand how we can apply
it to our own lives.
From an early age, it is drilled into our heads: Restlessness, distraction,
and ignorance are the enemies of success. Were told that learning is all
self-discipline, that we must confine ourselves to designated study areas,
turn off the music, and maintain a strict ritual if we want to ace that test,
memorize that presentation, or nail that piano recital. But what if almost
everything we were told about learning is wrong? And what if there was
a way to achieve more with less effort?
In How We Learn, award-winning science reporter Benedict Carey sifts
through decades of education research and landmark studies to uncover
the truth about how our brains absorb and retain information. What he
discovers is that, from the moment we are born, we are all learning
quickly, efficiently, and automatically; but in our zeal to systematize the
process we have ignored valuable, naturally enjoyable learning tools like
forgetting, sleeping, and daydreaming. Is a dedicated desk in a quiet
room really the best way to study? Can altering your routine improve
your recall? Are there times when distraction is good? Is repetition
necessary? Careys search for answers to these questions yields a wealth
of strategies that make learning more a part of our everyday livesand
less of a chore.
BOOK EXCERPT
BROADEN THE MARGINS

I was a grind.
That was the word for it back in the day: the kid who sweated the details, who made flashcards. A
striver, a grade-hog, a worker beethat kidand I can see him clearly now, almost 40 years later, bent
over a textbook, squinting in the glow of a cheap desk lamp.
I can see him early in the morning, too, up and studying at 5 oclock: sophomore year, high school,
his stomach on low boil because he cant quite masterwhat? The quadratic formula? The terms of the
Louisiana Purchase? The Lend-Lease policy, the mean value theorem, Eliots use of irony as a metaphor
for . . . some damn thing?
Never mind.
Its long gone, the entire curriculum. All that remains is the dread. Times running out, theres too
much to learn, and some of it is probably beyond reach. But theres something else in there, too, a lowerfrequency signal that takes a while to pick up, like a dripping faucet in a downstairs bathroom: doubt.
The nagging sense of having strayed off the trail when the gifted students were arriving at the lodge,
without breaking a sweat. Like so many others, I grew up believing that learning was all self-discipline:
a hard, lonely climb up the sheer rock face of knowledge to where the smart people lived. I was driven
more by a fear of falling than by anything like curiosity or wonder.
That fear made for an odd species of student. To my siblings, I was Mr. Perfect, the serious older
brother who got (almost) all As. To my classmates, I was the Invisible Man, too unsure of my grasp of
the material I was studying to speak up. I dont blame my young self, my parents or my teachers for this
split personality. How could I? The only strategy any of us knew for deepening learningdrive yourself
like a sled dogworks, to some extent; effort is the single most important factor in academic success.
Yet that was the strategy I was already using. I needed something more, something differentand I
felt it had to exist.
The first hint of that it did, for me, came in the form of other students, those two or three kids
in algebra or history who hadwhat was it?a cool head, an ability to do their best without that
hunted-animal look. It was as if theyd been told it was OK not to understand everything right away;
that it would come in time; that their doubt was itself a valuable instrument. But the real conversion
experience for me came later, when applying for college. College was the mission all along, of course.
And it failed; I failed. I sent out a dozen applications and got shut down. All those years laboring before
the mast and, in the end, I had nothing to show for it but a handful of thin envelopes and one spot on a
waiting-listto a college I attended for a year, before dropping out.
What went wrong?
I had no idea. I aimed too high, I wasnt perfect enough, I choked on the SATs. No matter. I was
too busy feeling rejected to think about it. No, worse than rejected. I felt like a chump. Like Id been
scammed by some bogus self-improvement cult, paid dues to a guru who split with the money. So, after
dropping out, I made an attitude adjustment. I loosened my grip. I stopped sprinting. Broadened the
margins, to paraphrase Thoreau. It wasnt so much a grand strategyI was a teenager, I couldnt see
more than three feet in front of my faceas a simple instinct to pick my head up and look around.
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Isaac received the Mike Berger Award from Columbia University and the Beat Reporting Award from the
Association of Healthcare Journalists. Fink, a former relief worker in disaster and conflict zones, received her
M.D. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. Her first book, War Hospital, is about medical professionals under siege
during the genocide in Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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n the tradition of the best investigative journalism, physician and

reporter Sheri Fink reconstructs five days at Memorial Medical
Center and draws the reader into the lives of those who struggled
mightily to survive and to maintain life amidst chaos.
After Katrina struck and the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the
heat climbed, exhausted caregivers chose to designate certain patients
last for rescue. Months later, several health professionals faced criminal
allegations that they deliberately injected numerous patients with drugs
to hasten their deaths.
Five Days at Memorial, the culmination of six years of reporting,
unspools the mystery of what happened in those days, bringing the
reader into a hospital fighting for its life and into a conversation about
the most terrifying form of health care rationing.
In a voice at once involving and fair, masterful and intimate, Fink
exposes the hidden dilemmas of end-of-life care and reveals just how
ill-prepared we are in America for the impact of large-scale disasters
and how we can do better. A remarkable book, engrossing from start to
finish, Five Days at Memorial radically transforms your understanding
of human nature in crisis.

Memorial Medical was surrounded by floodwaters after the levees failed in New Orleans
in 2005, drowning one of Americas great cities. Within hours, all power would fail. The heat
rose. Rescue helicopters began arriving. They transported one or two patients at a time, but
there were around 250 patients and 2,000 staff and family members. Who should be rescued
first?
Five Days at Memorial is about what happens when disaster strikes and the systems our lives
depend on fail at the moment we need them the most. It is a call to learn from the past and do
better next timeand there are no readers more capable of implementing these lessons than
young people.
This book transports students into the heart of a disaster scenario and makes them ask
themselves: What would I do? They grapple with triage and end-of-life dilemmas, and face
profound questions: Do exceptional times allow us to make exceptions to moral rulesor
does a time of crisis call for an even deeper commitment to our fundamental values?
The first half of the book recreates the events moment by moment from a variety of
perspectives. The second half examines how the legal system and society adjudicates
potentially criminal actionsin this case, the intentional hastening of patient deathswhen
they take place outside of a normal context. As a teaching tool, Five Days at Memorial contains
vital preparedness points for careers in health care, criminal justice, the law, journalism,
business administration, environmental science, engineering, and sociology, among others.
It reads quickly because of the strong narrative and novelistic pull. Extensive endnotes offer
jumping-off points for students to expand their research, building on cross-disciplinary
themes including ethical decision making, disaster preparedness, resilience, leadership, and
the history of American race relations.
Im a physician and neuroscientist by training. Ive delivered humanitarian aid in disasters
and conflict zones around the world. What Ive learned in every disaster is that what matters
most in the immediate crisiswhen the systems fail, as they almost inevitably doare the
decisions and actions of regular people. Five Days at Memorial tells the story of one of the
most gripping and fascinating real-life events Ive ever reported on, but it also carries an
important message: We all have a role to play in preparing for and responding to crises.
Thinking through these decisions in advance will better prepare students for making tough
choices in reality.
When invited to campuses, I work hard to tailor my presentations to fit unique interests and
needs. I love meeting with students and faculty. Id be thrilled for Five Days at Memorial to be
considered for your reading project, and would
be excited to brainstorm ways to involve the
campus and community in discussions.
Visiting your school and engaging with your
students as part of your Freshman Experience
Program and course adoptions would be a great
honor. Please contact me through my website,
sherifink.net, to get things started.
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HISTORY & SOCIETY
The Underground
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n investigative journalist uncovers a hidden custom that will

transform your understanding of what it means to grow up as a girl.
In Afghanistan, a culture ruled almost entirely by men, the birth of a son
is cause for celebration and the arrival of a daughter is often mourned as
misfortune. A bacha posh (literally translated from Dari as dressed up
like a boy) is a third kind of childa girl temporarily raised as a boy
and presented as such to the outside world. Jenny Nordberg, the reporter
who broke the story of this phenomenon for the New York Times,
constructs a powerful and moving account of those secretly living on the
other side of a deeply segregated society where women have almost no
rights and little freedom.
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bring this remarkable story to life: Azita, a female parliamentarian who
sees no other choice but to turn her fourth daughter Mehran into a boy;
Zahra, the tomboy teenager who struggles with puberty and refuses her
parents attempts to turn her back into a girl; Shukria, now a married
mother of three after living for twenty years as a man; and Nader, who
prays with Shahed, the undercover female police officer, as they both
remain in male disguise as adults.
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extreme sacrifices of Afghan women and girls against the violent
backdrop of Americas longest war. Divided into four parts, the book
follows those born as the unwanted sex in Afghanistan, but who live as
the socially favored gender through childhood and puberty, only to later
be forced into marriage and childbirth. The Underground Girls of Kabul
charts their dramatic life cycles, while examining our own history and
the parallels to subversive actions of people who live under oppression
everywhere.
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Swedish national newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, she has a long record of investigative reports for, among
others, The New York Times, where she also contributed to a series that won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for National
Reporting. In 2010, she was awarded the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism for a television
documentary on Afghan women. She is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative
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Bacha posh, the practice of dressing a girl like a boy, offers a window into a system
of severe gender apartheida system that exists not only in Afghanistan, but in many
countries where women are oppressed. The Underground Girls of Kabul is about
disguising oneself to survive in such a place.
Resistance to this kind of patriarchy has occurred throughout history when women
were excluded from education and unable to freely choose who they married, or
whether to have children. Many girls and women beyond Afghanistan, and in our
own history, have had to pretend to be boys and men to reach for rights that society
dictated were not theirs.
I wanted this book to be urgent. Because I am, frankly, angry that my own education
did not include a conversation about why women have historically been seen as less
valuable and less important than mennor where these ideas come from. It was
always presented as an accepted, unexamined fact. In my book, Ive searched for the
roots of these beliefs, in religion, biology and culture.
Some extremely brave Afghan women revealed their most intimate secrets to me.
They spoke about what it feels like to have tasted life on the other side and to then
be forced to let go of the privilege they found there. They have all infiltrated the world
of men and boys in a real-life nature versus nurture experiment that question binary
gender definitions, and whether we as humans can exist along a broader spectrum.
Their stories constitute a defiant piece of history that I hope will spur conversations
about the discrimination that still remains in our part of the world and the culture of
honor, which often requires girls and women to be pure and modest, while men are
asked to be strong and protective. I also hope this book will provoke hard questions
about why we go to war and whether we really are so different from those we fight.
Trying to be someoneor somethingelse has always been a way for those of a
marginalized gender, skin color, religion or sexuality to escape discrimination. But
what does it really do to you to deny who you are? And why should anyone ever have
to do it?
So what is the difference between men and women? I have asked many Afghan
women that and their answers often come back as a single word: freedom. One gender
has it, the other does not. And those with pants always come first.
From that point, my story begins. And so, I hope, do your own questions. I would
love to be part of your conversations, in classrooms and in chat rooms and wherever
they take place. You can find me at @nordbergj and bachaposh.com. I am very curious
to know who else lives in disguise, and what that has been likeI know there are so
many of us out there.
Jenny Nordberg
HISTORY & SOCIETY
The Village Effect

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n her surprising, entertaining, and persuasive new book, awardwinning author and psychologist Susan Pinker shows how face-toface contact is crucial for learning, happiness, resilience, and longevity.
From birth to death, human beings are hardwired to connect to other
human beings. Face-to-face contact matters: tight bonds of friendship
and love heal us, help children learn, extend our lives, and make us
happy. Looser in-person bonds matter, too, combining with our close
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face-time with our friends and families in order to thriveeven to
survive. Creating our own village effect makes us happier. It can also
save our lives.
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science. Her first book, The Sexual Paradox, was published in seventeen countries and was awarded the William
James Book Award by the American Psychological Association. Her work has been featured in The New York
Times, The Times of London, The Economist, The Atlantic, Financial Times, and Der Spiegel and on the BBC, the CBC,
and NBCs Today show. She lives in Montreal.
BOOK EXCERPT
Chapter 1
Swimming Through the School of Hard Knocks
How Social Bonds Can Rejig the Outcome of Chronic Disease
When Sylvie La Fontaine was diagnosed with breast cancer in April 1999, she had just
competed with her team in the Canadian Masters national swimming championships.
Five foot ten, with rectangular tortoiseshell glasses and pixie-cut hair, Sylvie favored snug
wraparound tops she sewed herself, worn over leggings and boots; she hardly looked the
part of a grandmother of three. A real estate agent and interior designer, she was the de facto
hub of several intense face-to-face social networks, including her swim team. Its president
for seven years by that time, she fielded a multitude of personal and training questions from
its 150 members, including but not limited to their health issues, reproductive concerns
and sports injuries, marital flare-ups and child-rearing doubts, thoughts on the pools water
quality and the coachs latest endurance workout. She was even a shoulder to cry on when a
members beloved pet had to be put down. She sustained this role with bemused equanimity
until a teammate blasted herand not for the first timeabout some insignificant mishap
at a competition. The attack penetrated her usual defenses and really stung. Given her recent
cancer diagnosis, Sylvie wondered whether she should pull back from the team in order to
conserve her emotional resources.
But she found that it wasnt that simple for her to withdraw. Not only did people keep
seeking her out for advice, Sylvie couldnt resist getting involved when there was work to be
done. Along with being swim team president, she was also president of a rural homeowners
association that had recently planted 60,000 trees to naturalize communally owned farmland;
she had planted 15,000 of them herself. She unwittingly drew confidences from people she
barely knewwhich puzzled her, as she tended to keep her own counsel. I was just one of
what seemed like several hundred swim buddies, colleagues, and neighbors who considered
Sylvie a friend. And that was just her middle social layer: she had many closer friends too.
Sylvie and her husband had formed strong bonds with several Navy couples while he was
enlisted and their kids were young. Closer still were three couples she had met through the
swim team; they now dined and traveled together whenever they got the chance. When Gary,
one of these close swim friends, found out he had colon cancer, the same week Sylvie received
her diagnosis, she competed alongside him at the national championships, then threw herself
into his care, organizing tag teams to drive him to the hospital and helping to coordinate his
treatment regimen. Supporting Gary as he fought his six-month survival estimate became her
most pressing project. I wasnt sick. He was, she flatly retorted when I asked why she talked
about Gary when I asked about her own health. (Gary outlived his initial prognosis by threeand-a-half years.) I didnt really need anything at the time. Breast cancer is not something
that hurts, you know. Its very mental.
Not everyone would agree with this assessment. Whats indisputable is that, despite her vow
to withdraw, Sylvie continued to be deeply immersed in several face-to-face social networks
that involved taking care of other people. Though cancer did prompt her to give up her
leadership roles for a while, she still swam with the team, entertained family and friends, and
took care of people in her circle she thought needed her help. Few see looking after others
as therapeutic for the person who does the caretaking, or consider community involvement
as therapeutic as drugs. Yet there is mounting evidence that a rich network of face-to-face
relationships creates a biological force field against disease.
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Dataclysm
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ur personal data has been used to spy on us, hire and fire us, and
sell us stuff we dont need. In Dataclysm, Christian Rudder uses it
to show us who we truly are.
For centuries, weve relied on polling or small-scale lab experiments to
study human behavior. Today, a new approach is possible. As we live
more of our lives online, researchers can finally observe us directly, in
vast numbers, and without filters. Data scientists have become the new
demographers.
In this daring and original book, Rudder explains how Facebook likes
can predict, with surprising accuracy, a persons sexual orientation and
even intelligence; how attractive women receive exponentially more
interview requests; and why you must have haters to be hot. He charts
the rise and fall of Americas most reviled word through Google Search
and examines the new dynamics of collaborative rage on Twitter. He
shows how people express themselves, both privately and publicly. What
is the least Asian thing you can say? Do people bathe more in Vermont
or New Jersey? What do black women think about Simon & Garfunkel?
(Hint: They dont think about Simon & Garfunkel.) Rudder also traces
human migration over time, showing how groups of people move from
certain small towns to the same big cities across the globe. And he
grapples with the challenge of maintaining privacy in a world where
these explorations are possible.
Visually arresting and full of wit and insight, Dataclysm is a new way of
seeing ourselvesa brilliant alchemy, in which math is made human
and numbers become the narrative of our time.
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graduated from Harvard in 1998 with a degree in math and later served as creative director for SparkNotes. He
has appeared on Dateline NBC and NPRs All Things Considered, and his work has been written about in the
New York Times and the New Yorker, among other places. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter.

My fellow first-years and I were the first incoming class at Harvard to get official
email addresses from the school. I remember thinking, what nerd is going to send me
an electronic letter? Who wouldnt just call me? What is this garbage? It was 1993. That
fall, I used my roommates Mosaic browser to look up guitar tab for a Steve Miller song
and then, my curiosity about The Joker well satisfied, pretty much forgot about the
Internet.
Ive since reconsidered my relationship to technology (and to music). In 2003,
I started what has become one of the biggest dating sites in the country, OkCupid,
and last year I wrote a book about the data my site and others, like Twitter, Facebook,
and Google, have collected about our millions of users. But instead of hammering
away at the economic potential of data (a potential thats inarguably very potent),
I wanted to explore another side of the Internet. That huffy part of me never really
went awayfundamentally, what is this garbage? has followed me for decades. Now
I have my answer: I believe the Internet, through data weve all given to it, will offer
an unprecedented look at what makes humanity work. Dataclysm is the first draft of a
new social science.
The Information Age isnt just about the Information coming in. Its about you, as
Information, going out. Anytime you open Facebook, click in Instagram, or fire off a
Tweet, youre offering up a tiny piece of your life to a database. Dataclysm aggregates
all those pieces, from all those lives, back into a collective story about attraction,
sexuality, race, politics, identity, and perception. In short, it shows what all our
information adds up to. How do men and women view beauty differently? How do
bisexuals typically describe themselves? How fast can rage explode? It answers all
these and more. 1
But if Dataclysm answers some questions, its designed to leave the reader with
many more. How does being observed change who I am? How does my behavior
contribute to a whole? The more time you spend with social data, the more it can seem
to confirm what you already know. But the specificity and transparency that data gives
to social phenomena allows us to access and discuss them in a new way. If racism is
statistically pervasive and universalas the book showswhat does that say about
affirmative action? What does it say about white privilege? What does it say about the
84% of people who claim to be racially color-blind?
Because the book is built on the data of everyday people, the story it tells is
ultimately our storyyours and mineboth the ugly and the hopeful. And it will help
everyone to understand the implications of their digital lives, to know what they show
the world, each time they open their phone.
Christian Rudder
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The Immortal Life

of Henrietta Lacks
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er name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She
was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as
her slave ancestors, yet her cellstaken without her knowledge
became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first
immortal human cells grown in culture, they were vital for developing
the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the effects of
the atom bomb; helped lead to important advances in cloning, in vitro
fertilization, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the
billions, with devastating consequences for her family.
Now Rebecca Skloot takes the reader on an extraordinary journey, from
the colored ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to stark
white laboratories with freezers full of HeLa cells; from Henriettas
small, dying hometown of Clover, Virginiaa land of wooden slave
quarters, faith healings, and voodooto East Baltimore today, where
Henriettas children, unable to afford health insurance, wrestle with
feelings of pride, fear, and betrayal.
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Pittsburgh. She has worked as a correspondent for NPRs RadioLab and PBSs Nova ScienceNOW, and her writing
has appeared in The New York Times Magazine; O, The Oprah Magazine; Discover; Columbia Journalism Review;
and elsewhere.
I first learned about HeLa cells, and the woman behind them, as a teenager sitting in a
freshman biology class. I knew only fragments of Henriettas story, but those fragments
inspired me to start asking questionsabout science and mortality, bioethics, and how
Id feel if my own cells were used in research. I didnt yet know that her cells had launched
a multibillion-dollar industry while her children lived in poverty, or that the cells had
devastating consequences for the family.
Henriettas story captures the imagination of students in any number of disciplines,
including the sciences, medicine, African-American studies, sociology, philosophy, law,
bioethics, journalism, and creative writing. Ive spoken about HeLa at schools around the
country, where students are transfixed by the story. I tell them that if you could pile all HeLa
cells ever grown on a scale they would weigh more than one hundred Empire State Buildings,
and that HeLa has been fused with mouse cells to create Henrietta-mouse hybrid cells. Its
the stuff of science fiction, but its true, and students love it. Combine that with the story of
Henriettas familya tale about science, religion, race, and classand students reactions are
powerful.
During Q&As, the first question is usually: Wasnt it illegal to take her cells and use them
in research without asking? The answer is nonot in 1951, and not in 2011. Today, most
Americans have their tissue on file somewhere through routine blood tests or biopsies. And
since the late sixties, when testing newborns for genetic diseases became required by law, each
baby born in the United States has had blood taken, and those samples are often stored and
used by scientists. This means that the majority of college students in this country have tissues
of their own being used in research, and neither they nor their parents likely realize it.
As a college professor, I always look for books that bring together the many disparate fields
that students will study throughout their careers and that allow them to explore the realworld consequences of intellectual discoveries. Other professors tell me The Immortal Life of
Henrietta Lacks does just that, bringing together health, community, family, ethics, religion,
science, storytelling, history, business, law, and humanity.
Since spring 2010, I have talked about my book at more than one hundred schools
nationwide. As a regular guest lecturer whos also worked as a correspondent for radio and
television, I understand the importance of being an engaging speaker, and my talks have been
called moving and engaging of both the heart and mind. You can visit the events page of my
website at RebeccaSkloot.com to see if Ill be speaking at your school, and you can contact
me through the site. I look forward to visiting even more schools as part of their Freshman
Experience Programs.
As a college biology major, I couldnt have imagined that Henriettas story would lead me to
become a writer, or that writing this book would be a ten-year journey. Theres no telling what
effect this story could have on students. I cant wait to find out.
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professor of law at New York University Law School. He has won relief for dozens of condemned prisoners,
argued five times before the Supreme Court, and won national acclaim for his work challenging bias against
the poor and people of color. He has received numerous awards, including the MacArthur Foundation
genius grant.
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powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us,
and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justicefrom one of
the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time
Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice
Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate
and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and
children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal justice system.
One of his first cases was that of Walter McMillian, a young man who
was sentenced to die for a notorious murder he insisted he didnt
commit. The case drew Bryan into a tangle of conspiracy, political
machination, and legal brinksmanshipand transformed his
understanding of mercy and justice forever.
Just Mercy is at once an unforgettable account of an idealistic, gifted
young lawyers coming-of-age, a moving window into the lives of those
he has defended, and an inspiring argument for compassion in the
pursuit of true justice.
My grandmother was the daughter of people who were enslaved in Caroline County,
Virginia. She was born in the 1880s, her parents in the 1840s, and the legacy of slavery very
much shaped her and the things she would say to me. When I visited my grandmother, she
would hug me so tightly I could barely breathe. After a little while, she would ask me, Bryan,
do you still feel me hugging you? If I said yes, shed let me be; if I said no, she would assault
me again. I said no a lot because it made me happy to be wrapped in her formidable arms. She
never tired of pulling me to her. You cant understand most of the important things from a
distance, Bryan. You have to get close, she told me all the time.
This book is about getting closer to mass incarceration and extreme punishment in
America. It is about how easily we condemn people in this country and the injustice we
create when we allow fear, anger, and distance to shape the way we treat the most vulnerable
among us. Its also about a dramatic period in our recent history, a period that continues to
mark the lives of millions of Americansof all races, ages, and sexesand the American
psyche as a whole. The prison population in America has grown from 300,000 in 1972 to
2.3 million people today. The United States now has the highest incarceration rate in the
world. We have condemned thousands of children, some as young as 13, to die in prison
with life imprisonment without parole sentences. Weve executed over 1,400 people with a
death penalty system that has proved remarkably unreliable. Over 150 people condemned to
execution have been proved innocent, exonerated and released.
In 1983, I was a 23-year-old student at Harvard Law School working in Georgia on an
internship, eager and inexperienced, and worried that I was in over my head. When I learned
that I would be visiting a death row prisoner alone, with no lawyer accompanying me, I tried
not to let my panic show. When I signed up for this internship, I hadnt given much thought
to the fact that I would actually be meeting condemned prisoners. To be honest, I didnt even
know if I wanted to be a lawyer. The distance I experienced in my first year of law school made
me feel lost. I could not have known that proximity to the condemned, to people unfairly
judged, would guide me back to something that felt like home. I document my journey and
some remarkable people I represented, including an innocent man named Walter McMillian
who was wrongly convicted and sentenced to death in Monroeville, Alabama, the home of
Harper Lees fictional novel, To Kill a Mockingbird.
In this book, you will learn the story of Walters case, which taught me about our systems
disturbing indifference to inaccurate or unreliable verdicts, our comfort with bias, and our
tolerance of unfair prosecutions and convictions. Walters experience taught me the ways
our system traumatizes and victimizes people when we exercise our power to convict and
condemn irresponsiblynot just the accused but also their families, their communities, and
even the victims of crime. But Walters case also taught me something else: that there is light
within this darkness.
My work has taught me some basic and humbling truths, including this vital lesson: Each
of us is more than the worst thing weve ever done. My work with the poor and the incarcerated
has persuaded me that the opposite of poverty is not wealth; the opposite of poverty is justice.
Ive come to believe that the true measure of our commitment to justice, the character of our
society, our commitment to the rule of law, fairness, and equality cannot be measured by how
we treat the rich, the powerful, the privileged, and the respected among us. The true measure
of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the
condemned.
We are all implicated when we allow other people to be mistreated. I believe its necessary
to recognize that we all need mercy, we all need justice, andperhapswe all need some
measure of unmerited grace.
Bryan Stevenson
HISTORY & SOCIETY
Zero to One
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efining and expanding on the lecture notes from his Startup course
at Stanford (which received over a million views when posted
online by a student), Silicon Valley legend Peter Thiel offers a
groundbreaking new theory and formula for how to build the
companies and innovations of the future. Thiel says that progress comes
in two forms: vertical and horizontal. Horizontal progress means
copying or iterating on things that already exist; vertical progress is
building new products, ideas, and solutions from the ground up.
Horizontal progress, he says, yields only incremental improvements and
short-term profits that are quickly competed away. To create the lasting,
sustainable value that a prosperous future requires, we must strive for
vertical progress: what he calls going from zero to one.
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2002, defining a new era of fast and secure online commerce. In 2004 he made the first outside investment
in Facebook, where he serves as a director. The same year he launched Palantir Technologies, a software
company that harnesses computers to empower human analysts in fields like national security and global
finance. He has provided early funding for LinkedIn, Yelp, and dozens of successful technology startups,
many run by former colleagues who have been dubbed the PayPal Mafia. He is a partner at Founders Fund,
a Silicon Valley venture capital firm that has funded companies like SpaceX and Airbnb. He started the Thiel
Fellowship, which ignited a national debate by encouraging young people to put learning before schooling,
and he leads the Thiel Foundation, which works to advance technological progress and long- term thinking
about the future.
#-",& ."45&34 was a student at Stanford Law School in 2012 when his detailed notes on Peters class
Computer Science 183: Startup became an internet sensation. He went on to co-found Judicata, a legal
research technology startup.
A MESSAGE FROM THE CO-AUTHOR
What important truth do very few people agree with you on? It sounds like
an easy question. It isnt. Wrestle with it for a few moments and you may be
tempted to give up, but dont. Every great businessindeed, every way in which
the future will be different and better than the presentis rooted in a good
answer to this question. Contrarian truths may be hard to find, but in a world
in which so much of what we do is to simply repeat whats been done before,
creating new value means thinking from first principles, not following the
crowd.
Why read Zero to One in school? The book itself stems from a course that
storied investor and entrepreneur Peter Thiel taught at Stanford in 2012. I was
a student in that class. Peter told us everything hed learned about innovation
and building new things. I posted detailed course notes online and, for a while,
reading those notes was the best way to learn what Peter knows about the world
and how to change it. But while the notes captured the excitement in the room,
the future wont just happen at Stanford or in Silicon Valley. To start a wider
conversation, Peter and I have refined and expanded on the best ideas from the
class to make a richer, fresher, more readable text.
Equal parts practical business advice and big-picture insights on the future
of technology and innovation, Zero to One is structured as a series of answers
to contrarian questions. Progress comes in two forms: vertical and horizontal.
Horizontal progress means copying or iterating on products, ideas, and
solutions that already exist; vertical progress is building new ones from the
ground up. Thiel urges innovators not to compete on well-trodden paths but
rather to find a new frontier. Zero to One shares powerful insights, through both
philosophy and practical business advice, on why and how the most valuable
organizations in the world are the ones that solve problems in new ways.
Blake Masters
HISTORY & SOCIETY
Dreamers
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By Eileen Truax
reamers is a movement book for the generation brought to the

United States as childrenand now fighting to live here legally.
Of the roughly twelve million undocumented immigrants living in the
United States, as many as two million came here as children. They grow
up here, going to elementary, middle, and high school, and then the
country they call home wont (in most states) offer them financial aid
for college, and theyre unable to be legally employed. In 2001, U.S.
Senator Dick Durbin introduced the DREAM Act to Congress, an
initiative that would allow these young people to become legal residents
if they met certain requirements. More than a decade later, in the face of
congressional inertia and furious opposition from some, the DREAM
Act has yet to be passed. In recent years, this young generation of
Dreamers has begun organizing, and with their rallying cry
Undocumented, unapologetic, and unafraid, they are the newest face
of the human rights movement. In Dreamers, Eileen Truax illuminates
the stories of these young men and women, who are living proof of a
complex and sometimes hidden political reality that calls into question
what it truly means to be American.
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contributes regularly to Hoy Los Angeles and Unidos and writes for Latin American publications including
Proceso, El Universal, and Gatopardo among others. Truax often speaks at colleges and universities about the
Dreamer movement and immigration.
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When President Obama made the announcement in November 2014 to, in his words, fix our
broken immigration system, through executive action, I immediately thought about the many
Dreamers Ive met through the years. I first heard about them in 2005, having recently arrived in
the United States, and was working at a Spanish-language newspaper in Los Angeles, La Opinin.
My assignment editor asked for a story about the Raza Graduation, an event where Latino
students thank their parents for sending them to college. I assumed it would be just another
Latino pride event, but ended up being profoundly moved. I especially remember a young
man I talked to, Mario, who had earned his degree in engineering that semester, honoring the
tremendous sacrifice that his parents made for him and his siblings. Although his parents brought
him to the United States when he was five years old, and although this was the country he called
home, he wasnt eligible for financial aid because he didnt have a Social Security number and he
had no way of obtaining a green card. He wouldnt even be able to find employment despite his
degree, intelligence, or strong work ethic because of his undocumented status.
This story shook me to the core, and I became committed to finding out more about
undocumented students. I learned about the DREAM Act, the legislative bill presented in
Congress in 2001 by Senators Dick Durbin and Orrin Hatch. That progressive bill would have
allowed young students who came to the country with no documentsdue to a decision made by
their parentsto get a Social Security number and a work permit, and would also provide a path
to citizenship. Tragically, that bill has now been languishing for 13 years.
In the years that followed, I started covering stories about the Dreamers. I traveled across the
country speaking to young people who were trying to organize their peers, from California to New
York. I was struck by their activism, determination and also their acts of civil disobedience. In
2010, for instance, a group held a civil disobedience act in Los Angeles shouting undocumented
and unafraid, knowingly risking arrest and deportation. They were arrested, but, fortunately, not
deported, and when I think about how much courage participating in this took, I am awed.
And I realize that so much of what we hear about immigration is presented in strictly
numerical terms11 million undocumented immigrants in the country; 4.2 million of whom will
benefit from President Obamas executive actionbut what I know is this: the only way to truly
understand the issue is through the stories of the people that every morning have to face the world
with the word illegal hanging over them, living with the constant fear of possibly not returning
to their families that night if they happen to get arrested and deported that day. My book is about
seeing the undocumented people in all their humanity, not as numbers, as statistics or through
politics or partisanship.
Today I believe the Dreamers are the kindest and most honest face of our undocumented
immigrant communities. They could have made the perfect victimsafter all, they are in these
circumstances because of a decision their parents made, not thembut instead of being passive,
they assume responsibility for their lives, striving to build a better future. I would like everyone
to see immigration through their eyes, the eyes of one of the bravest, most passionate, smartest
generations that we have ever had in this country. A generation who decided to build their future
using all the tools the country they love may be willing to give them.
After all, theres nothing more American than fighting for a dream with all your heart.
Eileen Truax
HISTORY & SOCIETY

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By Reza Aslan
Jesus of Nazareth is arguably the most influential individual in the history of mankind. Yet,
theres still so much mystery surrounding his life. Reza Aslan sheds great insight on this
charismatic preacher by placing him within the context of his time and thoroughly analyzing
the testimonies of those who knew him besthis disciples.
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Regardless of how wealthy or poor their parents are, all black boys must confront and
surmount the achievement gap: a divide that shows up not only in their test scores, but in
their social and emotional development, their physical well-being, and their outlook on life.
Joe Brewster, M.D. and Michle Stephenson, the directors of the award-winning
documentary American Promise, have written this unprecedented guide to helping black
boys achieve success at every stage of their livesat home, at school, and in the world.
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The Road to CHARACTER

By David Brooks
In his most eye-opening and deeply personal book yet, David BrooksNew York Times
bestselling author of The Social Animaltells the story of ten great lives that illustrate how
character is developed, and how we can all strive to build rich inner lives, marked by
humility and moral depth. In a society that emphasizes success and external achievement,
The Road to Character is a book about inner worth.
Forthcoming April 2015. Do not order before 4/21/2015.
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Elephant Company
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The remarkable story of James Howard Billy Williams, whose uncanny rapport with the
worlds largest land animals transformed him from a carefree young man into the
charismatic war hero known as Elephant Bill.
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Nothing to Envy
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American journalist Barbara Demick interviewed six North Koreans who attempted to build
careers, relationships, and lives in North Korea, only to defect when they realized the extent
of the governments deception and abuse of its own citizens. Never before has such a
penetrating view of contemporary North Korea been published. Readers will be amazed by
this insiders account of the worlds most isolated state.
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Dead Wake
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the
enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania, published to coincide with the 100th
anniversary of the disaster.
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Forthcoming March 2015. Do not order before 3/10/2015.
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In the Garden of Beasts lends a stunning, eyewitness perspective on events as they unfold in
real time, revealing an era of surprising nuance and complexity. The result is a dazzling,
addictively readable work that speaks volumes about why the world did not recognize the
grave threat posed by Hitler until Berlinand Europewere awash in blood and terror.
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The new front in the War on Terror is the homegrown enemy, domestic terrorists who have
become the focus of sprawling counterterrorism structures of policing and surveillance in
the United States and across Europe. Domestic surveillance has mushroomedat least
100,000 Muslims in America have been secretly under scrutiny. Based on several years of
research and reportage, in locations as disparate as Texas, New York, and Yorkshire, England
and written in engrossing, precise prose, this is the first comprehensive critique of
counterradicalization strategies.
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Ghettoside
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Ghettoside is the kaleidoscopic story of the quintessential, but mostly ignored, American
murdera ghettoside killing, one young black man slaying anotherand a brilliant and
driven cadre of detectives whose creed is to pursue justice for forgotten victims at all costs.
Ghettoside is a fast-paced narrative of a devastating crime, an intimate portrait of detectives
and a community bonded in tragedy, and a surprising new lens into the great subject of why
murder happens in our citiesand how the epidemic of killings might yet be stopped.
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Matt Taibbi, author of The Divide
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The Fall of the

House of Dixie
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In this major new history of the Civil War, Bruce Levine, Professor of History at the
University of Illinois, tells the riveting story of how that conflict upended the economic,
political, and social life of the old South, utterly destroying the Confederacy and the society
it represented and defended.
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James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom
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Devotion tells the inspirational story of the U.S. Navys most famous aviator duo: Lieutenant
Tom Hudner, a white, blue-blooded New Englander, and Ensign Jesse Brown, an AfricanAmerican sharecroppers son from Mississippi and the Navys first black carrier pilot.
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HISTORY & SOCIETY

Salt Sugar Fat
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Every day, Americans ingest 8,500 milligrams of salt, double the recommended amount,
almost none of which comes from the shakers on our table. It comes from processed food, an
industry that hauls in $1 trillion in annual sales. In Salt Sugar Fat, Pulitzer Prizewinning
investigative reporter Michael Moss shows how we ended up here.
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We Band of Angels
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By Elizabeth Norman
In the winter of 1941, as Japanese bombs began falling on Luzon, American Army and Navy
nurses found themselves in the thick of a nightmarish war. Amidst raining shells and shrapnel
they tended to devastating injuries. However, when Bataan and Corregidor fell, a handful of
nurses were sent to internment camps. We Band of Angels chronicles their suffering and
heroism in equal measure.
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Stephen E. Ambrose
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Sacred Ground
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In Sacred Ground, author and renowned interfaith leader Eboo Patel says prejudice post 9-11
is not just a problem for Muslims but a challenge to the very idea of America. Patel shows us
that Americans from George Washington to Martin Luther King Jr. have been interfaith
leaders, illustrating how the forces of pluralism in America have time and again defeated the
forces of prejudice.
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Acts of Faith
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Acts of Faith is a remarkable account of growing up Muslim in America and coming to believe
in religious pluralism, from one of the most prominent faith leaders in the United States.
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Detained and Deported
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By Margaret Regan
The United States is detaining and deporting undocumented immigrants at an
unprecedented rate. Thousands languish in immigration detention centers, separated from
their families, sometimes for years. Many of the deported have lived here for years and have
U.S.-citizen children; despite the possibly dire consequences, many cross the border again.
Using volatile Arizona as a case study, journalist Margaret Regan conjures up the harshness
of the detention centers hidden away in the countryside and travels to Mexico to report on
the fate of deportees stranded far from their families in the United States.
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Madiba A to Z
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By Danny Schechter
From the makers of the major motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, a completely
unique biography and thematic telling of the story of Nelson Mandela. This book, which
provided key source material for the film, is an unexpurgated collection of the views and
opinions of South Africas first Black president, and it draws on Danny Schechters forty-year
relationship with Madiba, as Nelson Mandela is known in his native South Africa.
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Bill Moyers
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My Promised Land
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Not since Thomas L. Friedmans groundbreaking From Beirut to Jerusalem has a book
captured the essence and the beating heart of the Middle East as keenly and dynamically as
My Promised Land. Facing unprecedented internal and external pressures, Israel today is at a
moment of existential crisis. Ari Shavit draws on interviews, historical documents, private
diaries, and letters, as well as his own familys story, illuminating the pivotal moments of the
Zionist century to tell a riveting narrative that is larger than the sum of its parts: both
personal and national, both deeply human and of profound historical dimension.
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Stuffocation is a movement manifesto for experiential living, a call to arms to stop
accumulating stuff and start accumulating experiences, and a road map for a new way
forward with the potential to transform our lives.
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Black Prophetic Fire
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In an accessible, conversational format, Cornel West, with distinguished scholar Christa

Buschendorf, provides a fresh perspective on six revolutionary African-American leaders:
Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ella Baker, Malcolm X, and
Ida B. Wells. In dialogue with Buschendorf, West examines the impact of these men and
women on their own eras and across the decades.
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Fight the Power!

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Fight the Power!, a nonfiction graphic novel, chronicles the history of subjugated people
asserting their rights. From the Irish Rebellion and the Boston Police Strike to Rosa Parkss
bus boycott and the Occupy Wall Street movement, the book expertly connects these various
protests and argues that there is purpose in fighting the good fight.
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Covering
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In Covering, one of the countrys most brilliant young legal scholars fashions a new paradigm
of civil rights. Drawing on his experiences as a gay Japanese American, Yale law professor
Kenji Yoshino argues that the culturally sanctioned suppression of authentic selves is a harm
from which the law should sometimes protect people. More profoundly, he also claims that
law will be less important to the civil rights of the future than a common culture of
authenticity.
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Speak Now
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LIFE & COLLEGE GUIDES
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rianna Huffingtons personal wake-up call came in the form of a

broken cheekbone and a nasty gash over her eyethe result of a fall
brought on by exhaustion and lack of sleep. As the cofounder and editorin-chief of the Huffington Post Media Groupone of the fastest-growing
media companies in the worldcelebrated as one of the worlds most
influential women, and gracing the covers of magazines, she was, by any
traditional measure, extraordinarily successful. Yet as she found herself
going from brain MRI to CAT scan to echocardiogram, to find out if
there was any underlying medical problem beyond exhaustion, she
wondered is this really what success feels like?
As more and more people are coming to realize, there is far more to
living a truly successful life than just earning a bigger salary and
capturing a corner office. Our relentless pursuit of the two traditional
metrics of successmoney and powerhas led to an epidemic of
burnout and stress-related illnesses, and an erosion in the quality of our
relationships, family life, and, ironically, our careers. In being connected
to the world 24/7, were losing our connection to what truly matters. Our
current definition of success is, as Thrive shows, literally killing us. We
need a new way forward.
In a commencement address Arianna gave at Smith College in the spring
of 2013, she likened our drive for money and power to two legs of a
three-legged stool. They may hold us up temporarily, but sooner or later
were going to topple over. We need a third lega third metric for defining successto truly thrive. That third metric, she writes in Thrive, includes our well-being, our ability to draw on our intuition and inner wisdom, our sense of wonder, and our capacity for compassion and giving.
Drawing on the latest groundbreaking research and scientific findings in
the fields of psychology, sports, sleep, and physiology that show the profound and transformative effects of meditation, mindfulness, unplugging, and giving, Arianna shows us the way to a revolution in our culture, our thinking, our workplace, and our lives.
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Group, one of the worlds most influential news and information brands. She is the author of fourteen books,
including Third World America and On Becoming Fearless, and the mother of two daughters, Christina and
Isabella.
Since Thrive was published, Ive spoken at a lot of colleges. And, when asked for
advice, I always say that the first thing to do is begin defining success for yourselfby
being clear about what you want, what you value and what you are about. But before
we can do that, we need to clear away the noise of the world to be able to truly listen
to ourselves. And to do that, we need to abandon, or at least mitigate, some of the
worst practices of the adult world that many students are already mired in: burnout,
sleep deprivation, stress, and anxiety. And from that place of greater wisdom and
perspective, students will be infinitely more effective at all the things they want to
master: overcoming fears, taking risks, improving confidence, networking effectively,
getting the job they want, getting a higher salary, etc.
But its not easythere are few signposts encouraging a culture of well-being and
taking care of our human capital.
Among those 18 to 29 years old, nearly half dont get the amount of sleep they need.
We know that lack of sleep increases stress, but then stress also makes it hard to sleep.
And according to the Journal of Adolescent Health, stress keeps 68 percent of students
up at night.
Its a vicious cycle that has made millennials our most stressed demographic,
according to the American Psychological Association. And nearly 40 percent of
millennials reported their stress increasing in the year before the 2012 study. But only
17 percent said they get a lot or a great deal of help in dealing with their stress.
Thrive can get that conversation started. For far too long, too many of us have been
operating under the collective delusion that burning out is the necessary price for
accomplishment and success. Recent scientific findings make it clear that this couldnt
be less true. Not only is there no tradeoff between living a well-rounded life and
high performance, performance is actually improved when our lives include time for
renewal, wisdom, wonder, and giving.
What Ive seen in the last year is that the desire for change is strongespecially
among millennials. We may have hit the snooze button a few times, but that wake-up
call is gradually being heard. And today, in addition to having the will, we have the
toolstools that are both timely and timeless. As I explain in the books introduction,
Thrive is structured to fix our broken definition of success. And there is no better time
for college students to start than today.
Arianna Huffington
Better Than Before

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Happiness Project and Happier at Home, tackles the critical
question: How do we change?
Gretchen Rubins answer: through habits. Habits are the invisible
architecture of everyday life. It takes work to make a habit, but once that
habit is set, we can harness the energy of habits to build happier,
stronger, more productive lives.
So if habits are a key to change, then what we really need to know is:
How do we change our habits?
Better than Before answers that question. It presents a practical, concrete
framework to allow readers to understand their habitsand to change
them for good. Infused with Rubins compelling voice, rigorous
research, and easy humor, and packed with vivid stories of lives
transformed, Better than Before explains the (sometimes counterintuitive) core principles of habit formation.
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In Happier At Home, author Gretchen Rubins works out what factors matter for
home, such as possessions, marriage, time, and parenthood. Each month, Rubin
tackles a different theme as she experiments with concrete, manageable
resolutionsand this time, she coaxes her family to try some resolutions.
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The Happiness Project. Rubin started her career in law and was clerking for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day
OConnor when she realized that she really wanted to be a writer. Raised in Kansas City, she lives in New York
City with her husband and two daughters.
College is a profound transition, and therefore a time of tremendous rewardand

riskfor habits. Better Than Before will help students see how to master their habits as
they begin this crucial new chapter in their lives.
As freshmen, students shed their familiar habits from home: when and whether
to study and attend class, when and what to eat, how much to spend or exercise or
shower or sleep. Often, however, students dont recognize that they need to rebuild
these habits.
Better Than Before explores the 21 strategies that people use to master their habits,
and can show freshmen how to build healthy and fruitful lives on campus.
The strategies of First Steps and Clean Slate will be particularly useful for students
because they learn that any beginning (like college) offers a terrific opportunity. Come
to college as a smoker? Its a great time to quit. Want to focus in class? Sit near the
front on the first day. The first semesteror even the first weekoffers a window of
opportunity to establish good habits.
The Strategy of Scheduling shows students the power of finding a specific spot
on the calendar for a desirable activity. Monitoring explains the value of simply
monitoring what theyre doing.
Safeguards examines how to safeguard good habitsand how to recover from a
slip. Students will certainly benefit from understanding the Strategy of Other People,
because while theyre building their own habits, theyre also influenced by their
roommates, fellow classmates, and professors.
These are just a few examples of how students can mindfully master the habits that
will allow them to be energetic, happy, productive, and engaged. Many students
struggle for monthsor yearsto establish the habits needed to thrive in college.
Better Than Before will speed that process.
It also provides a common vocabulary for people to explore their habit differences,
which is sure to spark spirited discussion from the classroom to the dining hall to the
dorms.
I wish that Id better understood how to shape my habits when I was a freshman at
Yaleand I hope that Better Than Before can be a valuable resource to your students.
For more information, downloadable resources, and discussion guides, please visit
my website, GretchenRubin.com.
Gretchen Rubin
FINANCIALLY FEARLESS
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LearnVest.com, discusses her 50/20/30 plan50 for essentials, 20 for
the future, and 30 for lifestyle. This straightforward method isnt
weighed down by wearisome budgets and helps readers create a more
secure financial future.
Covering everything from credit scores and mortgages to student loans
to planning for the future to helping aging parents, Financially Fearless
contains stories of people who have overcome money struggles, as well
as interactive worksheets and quizzes. Von Tobel also shows how to use
simple online tools and apps to keep better track of spending and
finances, with tips for integrating financial planning into a mobile,
digital life.
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LEARNVEST.COM is an award-winning personal finance
platform, which, through its subsidiary the LearnVest Program,
provides high-quality, fee-based financial advisory services.
The LearnVest Program is redefining the traditional financial
planning market with a dynamic, technology-enabled service.
Its 7-Step Action Program gives clients nationwide access to
unbiased financial advice, straight from Certified Financial
Planners. Since launch, LearnVest has raised over $41 million
and has been awarded numerous accolades, including a place
on Times annual list of 50 Best Websites and more.
"-&9" 70/ 50#&- $'1 is the founder and CEO of www.LearnVest.com, an award-winning financial
planning site. A Certified Financial Planner who attended Harvard Business School, Alexa has been featured
as a financial expert in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, BusinessWeek, Fast Company, Forbes, InStyle,
Glamour and on the Today show, Good Morning America, Anderson, Katie, ABC News, Bloomberg News, and
more. Her speaking engagements include Maria Shrivers Womens Conference, SXSW, Fortune Most Powerful
Womens Conference, and TEDxWallStreet, and she is a columnist for Cosmopolitan, Inc. Magazine, and Ladies
Home Journal.

If I really think back to the beginning, the story of Financially Fearless starts the year I
graduated from college.
It was 2006. I was graduating from Harvard College and headed to a job on Wall Street.
I was lucky to have a top-notch education, and I was ready to put my years of education to
work. I couldnt wait to set out into the real world, and dive right into my post-college life.
But there was a moment that gave me pause. I realized that despite the many valuable
lessons I did learn in collegeon topics ranging from the psychology of happiness to
ShakespeareI had never learned the ins and outs of personal finance. Where was I supposed
to go to learn the difference between a Roth and Traditional IRA? Or to figure out what factors
went into my credit score?
I quickly realized that my friends were all in the same boat. It blew me away that no class Id
ever taken taught me how to budget, what to do for insurance, or the 411 on retirement, and
the list went on. I realized that I was not aloneand recognizing that gave me a big dream: to
empower people across the country to take control of their money and live their richest lives.
So, I started LearnVest. Four years later, it has grown into an award-winning personal
finance platform. Weve raised over $41 million in venture financing, weve developed the
LearnVest Action Program to give clients nationwide unbiased, affordable advice from our
team of Certified Financial Planners, and were spreading our mission and Program to
thousands and thousands of people.
I was lucky enough to come to this realization about personal finance as I was graduating
collegenot ten years down the line after I had already made a few mistakes, as so many
people do. Thats part of the reason why I wrote Financially Fearless: to make financial literacy
available and accessible to all college students.
I know that choosing the right classes, participating in a variety of activities, and finding
friends easily come before budgeting or saving on a college freshmans to-do list. But its
time to change that.
Shouldnt students know how to manage their money from day one at college, when they
start making more independent financial decisions than ever before? All of a sudden, doing
laundry costs $1.50 instead of just a shout out to your parent, and there is no one telling you
what to buy, keeping you in check during shopping sprees, or stopping you from getting a
late-night pizza delivery. And for some, student debt slowly but surely starts accumulating. Its
stressful. They need a game plan.
After reading Financially Fearless, college students will walk away educated on the tips and
tricks of managing their finances, feeling more confident and prepared than ever before about
their money. No student should ever graduate from college without basic knowledge and
capabilities to manage their own finances, and Financially Fearless, with its easy-to-read style
and workbook functions, will help students take command over their money lives.
Since starting LearnVest, I have heard from thousands of young men and women who have
money worries and stress. Money is a universal concern, and it turns out that everyone has
most of the same questions and fears. My dream is to see younger and younger generations
grow up with a solid foundation, so that money never becomes an impediment from reaching
their full potential. My goal is to see this happen in the very near future. So lets help empower
the classes of 2018 and beyond with the knowledge they need to succeed.
For more information, visit www.LearnVest.com/FinanciallyFearless.
Alexa Von Tobel


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The latest edition of the most popular career guide in the world continues to offer
immediately useful advice, unique ways to find the right job, and practical insights. The book
is updated annually, to ensure that it always speaks to the current job market and job seeker.
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stakes seem impossibly high. However, with his latest guidebook, Richard Bolles, the father
of career development, aims to help banish the fear once and for all. Indeed, his general
conceit is that interviews are merely conversations to determine if the company/position is
the right fit for both parties. Bolles provides advice on everything from pre-interview
research to salary negotiation. And he astutely identifies the three most important facets of
an interview along with the only five questions you really need to be prepared to answer.
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the shortlist. Thats just one of the findings reported here, as legendary career expert Richard
N. Bolles presents new research about resumes in a guide that summarizes everything
students need to know about this essential tool.
This timely resource features the latest research on important resume topics such as key
words, soft skills, scanning software, social media, and online posting. Bolles argues that on
the basis of what we now know, we need to rethink what a resume isand how it should be
written.
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In The Power of Habit, Pulitzer Prizewinning business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to
the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be
changed.
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uses to reach out to connect with the thousands of colleagues, friends, and associates on his
contacts list, people he has helped and who have helped him. And in the time since Never Eat
Alone was published in 2005, the rise of social media and new, collaborative management
styles have only made Ferrazzis advice more essential for anyone hoping to get ahead in
business.
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This fresh and exciting approach to science, skepticism, and critical thinking will enlighten
and inspire readers of all ages. With a mix of wit and wisdom, it challenges everyone to think
like a scientist, embrace the skeptical life, and improve their critical thinking skills.
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A revolutionary new guide to thriving in todays fractured world of work, The Start-Up of You
provides strategies that will help individuals survive, thrive, and achieve the boldest
professional ambitions and to take control of ones future.
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By Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Research in psychology has revealed that our decision-making suffers from consistent
problems: Were overconfident. We seek out information that supports us and downplay
information that doesnt. We get distracted by short-term emotions. Chip Heath and Dan
Heath (bestselling authors of Made to Stick and Switch) reveal the four major principles that
can be employed in order to make better, more informed, and more rational decisions in
both the professional and personal realms.
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Made to Stick
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Why do some ideas thrive while others die? And how do we improve the chances of worthy
ideas? Chip Heath and Dan Heath tackle these vexing questions head-on. In this
indispensable guide, we discover that sticky messages of all kindsfrom the infamous
kidney theft ring hoax, to a coachs lessons on sportsmanship, to a vision for a new product
at Sonydraw their power from the same six traits. Provocative, eye-opening, and often
surprisingly funny, Made to Stick reveals the vital components of winning ideasand shows
how everyone can make their own messages stick.
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This compelling narrative about the difficulty of bringing about genuine, lasting change in
ourselves and in othersespecially when one has few resources and no title or authorityis
a riveting read that will change lives. Combining psychology, sociology, management, and
case studies from a host of different fields, the authors tell countless stories of people and
organizations that have successfully created significant change.
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What is good prose? And how is it written? Pulitzer Prizewinning literary journalist Tracy
Kidder and distinguished editor and cultural critic Richard Todd tackle these questions
together, offering tips, stories, and valuable lessons from their more than four decades of
work together as writer and editor at the Atlantic Monthly. Combining practical advice and
discussion of mechanics and technique with engaging personal stories and examples of great
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For students who feel overworked but underutilized or always busy but never productive,
comes a book on how to achieve more by doing less: a systematic, strategic framework for
discerning what is essential, eliminating what is not, and removing obstacles in order to
make the execution of what is actually essential as easy and effortless as possible.
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The Curmudgeons Guide

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As bestselling author and social historian Charles Murray explains, at senior levels of an
organization there are curmudgeons everywhere, judging your every move. Yet it is their
good opinion you need to win if you hope to get ahead. Witty, wise, and pulling no punches,
The Curmudgeons Guide to Getting Ahead is an indispensable sourcebook for living an
adult life.
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This updated, expanded edition of a perennially popular guide offers students a crash course
in how to succeed in college. It shares essential lessons, including how to study effectively,
handle stress, manage course loads, prepare for and take tests, interact effectively with
professors, and balance academics and social life.
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The Buddha Walks into

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This is career advice of the profoundest kind, geared toward todays students whose
employment outlook is radically different from that of a generation ago. As Lodro shows,
even if the path of work shifts beneath your feet, its possible to make your livelihood a
source of satisfaction and of deep meaning.
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Publishers Weekly
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I Just Graduated . . .
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By Katherine Schwarzenegger
Graduation is a time of tough questions whose answers we dontand sometimes cant
know the day we receive our diploma. Determined to power through the uncertainty of
post-graduation, bestselling author Katherine Schwarzenegger embarked on a yearlong quest
to gather the best guidance possible from more than thirty highly successful people working
in fields like business, media, fashion, technology, sports, and philanthropy.
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The Tools
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Dissatisfied with the traditional therapy that left their patients waiting long, indefinite
periods of time for the change they needed, psychotherapist Barry Michels and psychiatrist
Phil Stutz joined forces to develop a more evolved therapy that would create positive,
effective change more quickly. Using four steps that allow one to tap into the unconscious
and turn problems into transformative tools, the duo (called an open secret by The New
Yorker) explain how to feel better nowand for the long-term. The Tools is a breakthrough
in self-improvement and empowerment.
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How to Be a Person
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Offering a panoply of useful tips, advice, and information not to be found anywhere else,
How to Be a Person presents fun, sage advice on matters of education, entertainment,
manners, personal hygiene, sex, love, and relationships. For anyone about to enter the
strange, uncharted waters of college, this book is a lifesaver, a guide that truly covers it all.
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Millions of people are unemployed. 53% of recent college graduates are unemployed or
underemployed, yet 3.5 million jobs remain unfilled. Why? Because companies simply cant
find people with the skills to do the work they need.
Jobs and apprenticeship expert Nicholas Wyman is changing the conversation about what a
successful career path can look like. Job U offers a practical roadmap to job security and
economic prosperity that provide job-seekers with the technical, vocational, and soft skills
most in-demand and valued by todays employers and companies.
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n this completely updated and revised edition, Stuffed and Starved by

Raj Patel continues to be one of the most widely praised food books of
recent years.
Its a perverse fact of modern life: There are more starving people in the
world than ever before, while there are also more people who are
overweight.
To find out how things got to this point and what can be done about it,
Raj Patel launched a comprehensive investigation into the global food
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Indias wrecked paddy fields and Africas bankrupt coffee farms, while
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reasons for famine in Asia and Africa.
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joyful food system. Going beyond ethical consumerism, Patel explains,
from seed to store to plate, the steps to regain control of the global food
economy, stop the exploitation of both farmers and consumers, and
rebalance global sustenance.
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worked for the World Bank, WTO, and the UN, and hes also been tear-gassed on four continents protesting
them. He is the author of The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy.
Why did I write Stuffed and Starved?

As first-year students just entering college, my friends and I were fired up by the big
questionsquestions of inequity, questions of basic fairness. Why do some people
have so much, while others have so little? Why do some people go hungry, while
others are obese? Is there really not enough food to feed the world?
Trying to answer those questions has been driving my research, and my life, ever
since. And finding real workable solutions seems more crucial now than ever. Globally,
nearly a billion people are going hungry, while two billion are overweight.
When I was growing up, my parents said eat upthere are children starving in
Africa. So what do you think parents in Africa tell their children? Eat upthere are
children starving in India. African parents have it right. India, the place where we
imagine all the jobs have gone to people with Ph.D.s in computer science, is also a
country with more hungry people than the entire continent of Africa, an epidemic of
farmer suicides, and more people with type 2 diabetes than anywhere in the world.
Back here in the U.S., we are one of the most overweight countries on earth, facing
our own food-related problems. One in three kids born today will develop diabetes
and one in every two kids of color will. Yet fifty million Americans dont have enough
to eat, and we had our own wave of farmer suicides in the 1980s.
Trying to make sense out of these incongruities has taken me around the world
from the giant supermarkets of California to wrecked paddy fields in India and
bankrupt coffee farms in Africaand to some of the biggest issues of our day: the
effects of climate change on food stability, a worldwide diabetes epidemic, dramatic
new Chinese food policies, and something all governments fear: the return of the
food riot.
Foodits availability, cost, quality, and quantityis one of the biggest issues we face
today. And though the stories and the statistics may be bleak, as I researched further
I also found great cause for hope. People are working to create a more equitable food
economy. There are things to be done, and people are doing them.
We can take real, profound steps to regain control over the global food system. We
can go beyond small acts of ethical consumerism. Together, we can create a more
democratic, sustainable, and joyful food system.
I believe I have found some real answers to those early undergraduate questions,
answers that go beyond the tired rhetoric of the news cycle, that have opened me up
to worlds of science, letters, ideas, and action. If readers can take a fraction of the
inspiration from Stuffed and Starved that I found in fields from Iowa to India, well be
well on our way to ending both hunger and obesity, forever.
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make a yearlong attempt to eat only foods grown and produced within a 100-mile radius of
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a meaningful way to relate to the very essence of human survival: the food we eat.
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Do the Kind Thing

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That Matters, Tony Hsiehs Delivering Happiness, and Howard
Schultzs Onward comes an inspiring handbook for success in business,
life, and the all-important task of building a more compassionate
worldby the visionary CEO of KIND Healthy Snacks.
When Daniel Lubetzky started KIND Healthy Snacks in 2004, he aimed
to defy the conventional wisdom that snack bars could never be both
tasty and healthy, convenient and wholesome. A decade later, the
transformative power of the companys AND philosophy has resulted
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KIND Movementthe companys social mission to make the world a
little kinderhas sparked more than a million good deeds worldwide.
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Holocaust thanks to the courageous kindness of strangers, Lubetzky
began his career handselling a sun-dried tomato spread made
collaboratively by Arabs and Jews in the war-torn Middle East. Despite
early setbacks, he never lost his faith in his vision of a not-only-forprofit businessone that sold great products and helped to make the
world a better place.
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between two seemingly incompatible options, people at KIND say
AND. At its core, this idea is about challenging assumptions and false
compromises. It is about not settling for less and being willing to take
greater risks, often financial. It is about learning to think boundlessly
and critically, and choosing what at first may be the tougher path for
later, greater rewards. By using illuminating anecdotes from his own
career, and celebrating some past failures through the lessons learned
from them, Lubetzky outlines his core tenets for building a successful
business and a thriving social enterprise. He explores the value of
staying true to your brand, highlights the importance of transparency
and communication in the workplace, and explains why good intentions
alone wont sell products.
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AND worked wonders for one companyand could empower the next
generation of social entrepreneurs to improve their bottom line and
change the world.
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market-driven forces to forge new business models. He is the CEO and Founder of KIND Healthy Snacks and
the KIND Movement. He is also founder of PeaceWorks Inc., and the OneVoice Movement, and co-founder of
Maiyet. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and four children.
BOOK EXCERPT
THINKING WITH AND
An Introduction to Avoiding False Compromises
It was May 1994. Mothers Day was a week away, and I sat anxiously by the phone. Across New York
City, small ads in neighborhood newspapers proclaimed the launch of my new venture, through which
Arabs and Israelis cooperated to make skincare products like Dead Sea bath salts, hand-treatment
creams, and mud masks that I had assembled into gift baskets. These would make the perfect gift for
moms, the ads explained, sending a thoughtful message of peace through business.
Cramped studio apartment/corporate headquarters; narrow black IKEA desk; secondhand chair:
I had set up my office in anticipation of a flood of orders. My biggest worry was how to process and
fulfill them all.
I had been starting businesses since elementary school, beginning with the magic shows I put on
for neighborhood kids in my native Mexico City. But, at age twenty-five, I had just thrown away the
promise of a Wall Street legal career to start my own company, based on a new concept I thought
could change the world: economic cooperation between conflict-torn peoples as a way to help them
get to know one another, create an incentive to build a shared future, and achieve peace. Building
bridges between people was my passion, and I wanted to use commerce to help nudge neighbors closer
together.
I was convinced that it was possible to build a company that was not-only-for-profitone that sold
great products and also did its small part toward making a better world. I believed I did not have to
choose one or the other; our company could achieve both goals at the same time. First, though, I would
have to get customers to buy the goods.
A week earlier, a delivery truck driver had rung up to apartment 8A, on the corner of Eighty-Fourth
Street and Second Avenue, to announce the arrival of my Dead Sea cosmetics shipment.
Come on up, I said over the buildings intercom.
You dont seem to understand, he replied tersely. Please come down.
For my trial, I had asked my trading partners to produce a few hundred each of mineral-rich mud
masks, hand-treatment creams with avocado oil, Dead Sea bath salts with various essential oils, and
seven varieties of mud soaps. I had assumed it would all just fit in a corner of my tiny studio and would
sell out quickly.
When I came down to the street, I saw that my order actually occupied an entire twenty-foot
container truck. The driver and I hauled box after box up to a room already filled with samples of
sundried tomato spreads made through cooperation among Israeli, Egyptian, Turkish, and Palestinian
trading partners, as well as packaging materials for the gift baskets. After stacking the boxes to the
ceiling of my studio, I had to convince my landlord to rent me a windowless basement space next to the
trash compactor to store the rest of the product. For the next two years, this crypt-like cubbyhole would
become my new office.
The company had now officially taken over my life. When I lay on my futon bed, I stared up at a
towering wall of boxes that threatened to fall on me any minute.
But it would all be worth it, I felt. The idea that Bedouins and Jews had partnered to make Dead Sea
cosmetics would surely please any mom who cherished soft skin and peaceful cooperation. With such a
fresh, novel concept, I thought, the challenge would be keeping up with all the incoming calls.
The week passed. Mothers Day came and went. Not one customer bought a single gift basket. Zero
consumer inquiries. Zero sales. Most of my savings were locked up in inventory I could not move. And
the smell of essential oils was suffocating.
I felt depressed. Terrified. In addition to sensing my dream slip away, I had no idea how I was going
to pay my rent.
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The Stop
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poverty.
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The Stop in 1998, it has been transformed from a cramped food bank to
a thriving, internationally respected community food center. The Stop
has flourished with gardens, kitchens, a greenhouse, farmers markets
and a mission to revolutionize our food system. In a voice thats never
preachy (MacLeans), Saul and Curtis share what The Stop could mean
for the future of food, and argue that everyone deserves a dignified,
healthy place at the table.
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recipient of the prestigious Jane Jacobs Prize and the Queens Jubilee Medal. He is now president and CEO of
Community Food Centres Canada, an organization that will bring the innovations of The Stop to communities
across the country.
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Search for a Great Lakes Shipwreck, won the the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction. Curtiss first childrens
book is Whats for Lunch? How Schoolchildren Eat Around the World.
A MESSAGE FROM THE AUTHORS
Why did we write this book?

When we were both in college (different cities, different schools, a few years apart), we each,
separately, became fascinated by social history. We were thrilled to discover that history didnt
have to be the same old boring litany of unmemorizable dates and hard-to-pronounce names
wed been spoon-fed through elementary and high school. It wasnt just stories told by and
about the powerfulkings and courtiers, politicians, religious, and business leaders. (Almost
all men, of course.) Instead, social historians were rediscovering the lives and contributions of
women, of workers, of First Nations, of immigrants, of servants, and even of children. It was
exciting, and part of what we each have done since in our working livesAndrea as a writer,
Nick as a community workerhas been to surface those stories.
This book is no different. The Stop is about the power of food to transform individuals,
communities, and the planet. But at its heart, it is also the untold story of the inspiring
and innovative work of a community-based organization that serves a very low-income,
marginalized neighborhood, and the trials and triumphs of the people who live there.
Throughout the book, there are the true, often-heartbreaking stories of people who come
to The Stop Community Food Centre in Toronto, folks living on welfare, struggling to get
by on minimum wage jobs, and women fleeing abusive relationships who are forced to
choose between feeding themselves or their kids. These are the kinds of stories that rarely get
mentioned in newspapers and magazines, or on the radio, TV, or the Internet. Or if they are
told, they are one-note wondersBob the welfare recipient, Jennifer the single mom, Peter the
alcoholic. We rarely get the whole picturethe setbacks and plateaus, the nonlinear way all of
us, whether were rich, poor, or in between, live our lives.
The stories in The Stop of people finding an engaged, welcoming community where they
can be fully themselveswelfare recipient and gardener, single mom and vocal advocate for
increasing minimum wageis, in our opinion, one of the most important parts of this book.
It is important because it gives space and dignity to these unheralded people. But it is also
important because their storieswarts and allare full of hope.
We believe that one way we will begin to see change when it comes to hunger and poverty
is when the real stories of low-income people and the struggles they face, the challenges they
triumph over, the hard-won hope they forge are told. Its easy to dismiss someone for their
ideologically based ideastheyre just ideas, after all. But its less easy to dismiss a persons
life, their experience, and the intimate, difficult details of who they are, what they care about,
and what theyve done. We dont think anyone who reads this book will dismiss the people
who allowed their stories to be told here. We hope they understand, as we have come to
believe, that telling stories will help to change the world.
Nick Saul & Andrea Curtis
SOCIAL ACTION
Chasing Chaos
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Jessica Alexander arrived in Rwanda in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide as an idealistic
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the world that she encountered in the field was dramatically different than anything she
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David D. Burstein is a burgeoning voice for the millennials. In Fast Future, he turns the
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the principles learned in the military: a humble servant-leader mentality, a willingness to
shoulder responsibility, and an understanding of personal sacrifice for the greater good to
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part of the larger story of life change. In his book, Brad Formsma develops the concept of his
website, ILikeGiving.com, which offers a fresh, simple, and practical angle to generosity
making for a rewarding lifestyle that every student can adopt. He discusses the power of
giving person to person and provides ideas for giving in the students own circles. Both
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By Lilly Ledbetter with Lanier Scott Isom

Many are familiar with Lilly Ledbetter, the woman behind the historic Ledbetter vs. Goodyear
discrimination case and President Barack Obamas Fair Pay Restoration Act. But here, for the
first time, this civil rights crusader and American icon shares her complete story: her
impoverished childhood, the bias and sexual harassment she experienced as an employee at
Goodyear, and her long, determined fight for what is right: fairness and equal rights for all.
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Start Something
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TOMS Shoes melds profit-making with social action; for every pair of shoes purchased, the
company donates a pair to a child. Although he had no prior fashion or retail experience,
Mycoskies business is profitable, even while giving shoes away. He shares his innovative
approach to business, and the business of doing good.
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THE CROWN

Includes: Best Practices & Adoption Timeline

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Dr. Sheri Fink

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Bryan Stevenson was spectacularjust as we expected! He

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are comfortable and

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In the ever-changing technological landscape,

the learning climate at your college or university.

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